The Muslim Brotherhood’s female candidate in the last elections said that she did not nominate herself as a reaction to her husband’s prevention from nomination but because she intends to play a different role from her husband’s. She believes that neither her nomination nor supporting Copts were maneuvers to convey the message that the Brotherhood gives up rigidity. Her opinion is that establishing a religious party, whether Islamic or Christian, will not lead to any division because political parties take their legitimacy from their public base.