Egyptians are using now the internet and websites to discuss the parlimentary elections and

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

An Egyptian Version for this website is needed now !!

Despite we will have the parlimentary elections before the constitution according to the referendum yet I think we should work on an Egyptian version for this website from now.
“Let’s discuss the constitutional reforms” is a Moroccan website dedicated to the discussion of the upcoming constitutional reforms in Morocco where users vote on the constitution articles and discuss it interactively. It is a great idea indeed.

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We can contact the Moroccan team behind the original website to help us or we can even use Google moderate and put the proposed articles of the new constitution to see in advance the reaction of the people. There is no doubt that internet surveys do not reflect or represent the Egyptian society as a whole considering the number of the Egyptian internet users, still discussion and awareness are too much needed now.
Also we are situation is different from our dear Moroccan brothers because we are speaking a new constitution from scratch. My idea is that when the new constitution discussion comes , we can have similar website to create awareness and see what the people want. In fact we can start from now.
Already that committee of constitution should include representatives from all over Egypt not only constitutional experts , thus this website can help the committee. We can even put all our old constitutions , also the constitutions of other countries and discuss them online.
We all know that the biggest step in our revolution is putting a new constitution that reflects the Egyptian people , the 85 million Egyptian people whether inside or outside the country. It will not be the mission of upcoming parliament or the SCAF or the government but rather the mission of the people. The people must show their seriousness to the SCAF that they are not indifferent to the constitution despite the majority vote Yes in the last referendum.
We should plan for the future from and not only to stand and scream “Constitution first” to the end of this talk then blame ourselves , if you are not ready tomorrow then you will never be ready forever.All our old constitutions were prepared in darkness ,we want a constitution to be prepared in the light.