Abdul Rahman Mohammed - Al Jazeera Net
The Egyptian opposition artist and contractor Mohamed Ali revealed the Egyptian Accord Document, which he announced at the London conference on November 20 last year, his intention to prepare it with national powers, in preparation for toppling the regime of the current president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Ali said in a video clip posted on his accounts on social media, that he met representatives of all political and intellectual currents that he found in "a state of severe exhaustion due to the regime's continuous targeting of it."
He pointed out that he worked with various currents to find common points of action to avoid conflict areas, to work to save Egypt and the return of freedom, dignity and justice.
Muhammad Ali began his speech by asserting that what happened from the current president, Sisi, in July 2013 is a "military coup against an elected president," noting that after the death of this elected president, Mohamed Morsi, the Brotherhood declared that legitimacy had passed on to the Egyptian people.
The document included 8 general principles and 11 items for work priorities during the next phase.
At the forefront of the general principles was that "the system of government in Egypt is a civil, democratic, based on justice and the rule of law, and the people are the source of powers, while ensuring the separation of the three executive, legislative and judicial powers, in addition to the independence of the media, the supervision of each other, and the peaceful transfer of power."
Among those principles are "promoting the right to citizenship ... and minorities and those who are geographically and historically marginalized ... preventing discrimination based on gender, color, race, origin, creed, or social class", as well as "respecting human rights" various, and "ensuring freedom of opinion, thought, expression, and belief" .. ".
It also stipulated "ensuring the freedom to establish and manage political parties, professional and labor unions, student unions, religious institutions and all civil society organizations" and "restructuring the state's relationship with all religious institutions to ensure independence."
The principles emphasized fighting and criminalizing violence against women and activating their participation in all fields, saying that "transitional justice is a guarantee to achieve societal reconciliation, and is based on a just fulfillment of the rights of martyrs, injured and detainees."
The last of those principles was "preserving full national independence, rejecting dependency, establishing for the restoration of national will, and preserving Egyptian national interests."
Among the most prominent priorities for work during the next stage, which were included in the document of Muhammad Ali, "changing the ruling regime responsible for all the repression and corruption", and "the release of all political prisoners and detainees pending fabricated cases and detainees of opinion cases and dropping these cases."
It also featured among those priorities "entering a transitional stage on consensual and participatory grounds between all Egyptian national currents", "rejecting and criminalizing military coups, limiting the role of the military establishment in protecting the borders of the homeland", and "complete independence of the judiciary, including the Attorney General" .
The document also mentioned among those priorities "restructuring the police", "reviewing the foreign agreements concluded by the current system", and "setting election laws to ensure equality among all candidates."
On November 20, Mohamed Ali launched what he called the "National Opposition Project", which he announced would start by setting up a program of work to be presented to the Egyptians, in preparation for calling for a broad popular movement to topple the Sisi regime.