Egypt’s new president : secularism or Islam?

The two candidates : Mohamed Morsi – an Egyptian politican who has been Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and Ahmed Shafiq – best known outside Egypt as Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister are starting in president election 2012 in Egypt.

The two candidates vying for president in Egypt’s runoff election on June 16 and 17 June are seen to represent the two polarizing extremes that have palsied Egyptian politics for over a year now. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had all the external powers of a functioning democratic system – officially defined executive, legislative and judicial branches of government and a constitution to govern their interactions. But over the course of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s 29-year reign, that system was obsolete and corrupted to the point where the executive branch had literally no checks on its authority. It is time to finally change the politic program in Egypt.

Who will be Egypt’s next president?

Ahmed Shafiq represents a secular Egypt. He says that he wishes to protect the country from uncontrollable chaos and that he would take steps to repress exuberant crime by using executions if necessary and ‘ brutal force ‘ to restore order. His opponent Mohamed Morsi represents islamic party, the newly established political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, an ostensibly independent organization known as the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

Irrespective of who wins the election – Mohamed Morsi or Ahmed Shafiq, the task ahead of Egypt’s next president is tremendous. Egyptians will want to see progress, expansion and developing their country as fast as possible.