Meanwhile, political powers and parties embarked on forming what they called the “Civil Current” within preparations to participate in the next parliamentary elections in a bid to “confront the fulūl (remnants of the former regime) and the Muslim Brotherhood with a unified list,” according ‘Imād Jād, a member of the high office of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP).

The third way, as nicknamed by the ten parties that built the new entity, seeks bringing together all rights, leftist and centrist civil groups between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood with no exclusion to any party except al-Wafd, whose leader al-Sayīd al-Badawī’s recent decisions “enfeebled the party’s civil identity,” said Jād. [Ahmad ‘Abd al-Halīm and Rānyā Rabī’, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, June 23, p. 1] Read text in Arabic