Campaign promises

Mubarak’s campaign promises in his campaign kickoff event last night at Al Azhar Park:

-Constitutional amendments that enshrine the liberites of the citizen, reinvigorate political parties, develop the institutional framework of our policies and the decision making process, and place restrictions on executive authority.


-Amendments to enhance parliament’s oversight, allowing it to hold the government accountable, empowering it to be involved in the budget process.


-Reforms to guarantee fair representation of women in parliament.


-Adopting an electoral system that guarantees the greatest chance for multi-party representation.


-Revising the Judicial Authority Law to reinforce the judiciary’s independence.


-Decentralize decision making, giving more authority to local government.


-Legislation to guarantee all citizens the right to basic due process and a fair and speedy trial.


-An anti-terror law to replace the emergency law.


-Revise system of administrative detention to reinforce the rule of law.


-Legislation that will guarantee citizens’ rights to the free flow of information.


-Further enhance the performance of public newspapers.


-Create over 4 million job opportunities in the next six years, through the largest investment program Egypt has ever witnessed.


-Increase availability of micro financing.


-Empower private sector to build 1000 factories in the next six years, and to provide 250,000 job opportunities.


-Reclaim one million feddans of desert land, thus providing an additional 70,000 jobs.


-Increase hotel capacity, creating an additional 200,000 jobs.


-Extend health insurance coverage to every citizen.


-3,500 new schools over next six years.


-80,000 government subsidized new homes per year.


-Provide squatter settlements water, electricity, sewage, and access to schools.


-Establish private mass transportation companies to develop road networks in Upper and Lower Egypt.


-Ease traffic in the capital by completing third metro line.


-Raise wage of low-income civil servants by 100%.


-Increase remaining civil servants’ wages by 75%.


-Guaranteed job contracts, health insurance, and social security to those working in the informal sector.