The pomp of the monarchy is a neat way of distracting from this highly questionable constitutional arrangement.

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The first direction follows the original roadmap for democracy, including free and fair elections and a constitutional arrangement which she had earlier indicated she would be negotiating with Gen Musharraf.

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Now there is a problem of sequence, I suppose, which is that clearly Egypt needs a new constitution and a new constitutional arrangement, but also there are elections planned in September.

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