One year ago on January 25th due to the excessive corruption and unfairness caused by the previous regime Egypt has finally decided to take action and not to remain silent, so millions of Egyptians took to the streets in one of the most powerful and peaceful revolutions worldwide. But unfortunately everything has its good side and its bad side, so yes that was a successful revolution but on the other hand Egypt right now is facing two major problems. The first one is that there's no president elected by the people, we are ruled by the army who was supposed to hand over the power to a civilian elected president and a Parliament, now we have reached one year and we haven’t achieved this step yet. The second problem is that Egypt's previous constitution has been amended many times increasing the powers of the president and his son so eventually this constitution needs to be reformulated to allow a better democratic regime. But first of all, what is a constitution?
A constitution is the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature functions and limits that governs the country, it's simply the basic laws and principals of a country that determines the powers and duties which guarantees rights and responsibilities to the people in it. However, these two problems can't be fixed at once. So if we had to decide which step to take first, I see that the constitution is more important because it even contains the authorities, powers and responsibilities of the new president, as it will also contain the presidency duration and his relation with other powers such as the parliament, government and the court system. So the main functions of the constitution are to create and maintain balance between the presidency, parliament, government and the rights of each citizen.
That's why in my opinion I see that a constitution must be made before taking any steps in rebuilding the country because it's extremely essential.
A constitution is the system of fundamental laws and principles that prescribes the nature functions and limits that governs the country, it's simply the basic laws and principals of a country that determines the powers and duties which guarantees rights and responsibilities to the people in it. However, these two problems can't be fixed at once. So if we had to decide which step to take first, I see that the constitution is more important because it even contains the authorities, powers and responsibilities of the new president, as it will also contain the presidency duration and his relation with other powers such as the parliament, government and the court system. So the main functions of the constitution are to create and maintain balance between the presidency, parliament, government and the rights of each citizen.
That's why in my opinion I see that a constitution must be made before taking any steps in rebuilding the country because it's extremely essential.