After the ‘Presidential Team’ initiative announced on Saturday their demands in order to run for 2018 presidential elections, political expert Gehad Ouda questions the seriousness of their intentions to run for elections. The initiative was announced by former presidential adviser and planetary scientist Essam Heggy in 2016, who explained that several Egyptian revolutionaries were forming a “presidential team” to run in the 2018 elections. Ouda told Daily News Egypt that such demands were impossible to realise within the laws regulating the country. Ouda explained that instead of announcing such demands, political powers should try to create a political atmosphere suitable for elections. “They [Presidential Team] would not run for elections; even if they do, they wouldn’t get 20% of votes; they might even get only 1%,” he added.

Source: Daily News Egypt May 15, 2017 17:15 UTC