washingtonpost.com: Egypt Activists Say Real Reform Would Bar Mubarak From Race

washingtonpost.com: Egypt Activists Say Real Reform Would Bar Mubarak From Race: "'This is so far all just a big maneuver by Mubarak to avoid the missile of reform,' said Mustafa Mazen, a member of Tomorrow, a recently authorized party that promotes democracy and free-market economics. Its leader, Ayman Nour, was arrested in January for allegedly forging documents needed to apply for official authorization. Nour, who was released Saturday on $1,800 bail, has said he intends to run for president.
Some opposition leaders have described Mubarak's announcement as a step toward instituting the kind of system used for many years in Tunisia, where a dominant party led by an autocrat is surrounded by small, tame and essentially decorative parties. President Zine Abidine Ben Ali, who has ruled Tunisia for 17 years, won 95 percent of the vote in last year's presidential election against three challengers.
'Mubarak must not run again,' said Magdi Hussein, head of Egypt's Labor Party. 'He is the problem, not the solution. We don't want the Tunisia model here.'
'Mubarak's original proposal is far less than what the reform movement wants, and now conditions are being cooked up to make it completely meaningless,' said Aida Seif Dawla, a human rights activist and member of a loose coalition of opposition forces called Kifaya, which is Arabic for 'enough.'
'It's another coronation of Mubarak,' Dawla said. "