The means available to candidates are hugely disproportionate. One cannot compete with the government machine.

It's a pity because it really looked like he was going to deliver.

I'm sure he grits his teeth that we're out there criticizing him, but we can't turn back.

In Cairo this requirement fortunately does not apply, but it is perplexing and penalizes candidates from small parties.

Civil liberties, human rights, political reform - that's front-page material. And I want 80 percent of the news to be local.

What you need now is a paper of record in Egypt. That's what's missing.