Mistaken are those who believe that Dr. Muhammad Morsi's presidential term in Egypt will go by smoothly and without any predicaments or clashes. Moreover, disconnected from reality are those who imagine that the train disasters, the collapse of buildings, the drowning of ferries, corruption, the crises affecting the gas and oil pipelines and the disappearance of basic products will come to an end just because a president affiliated with the revolution came to power. And delusional are those unaware of the fact that the years of injustice, oppression, corruption, poverty and ignorance require urgent and long-term plans, and that although Morsi has become the president of all the Egyptians, this does not deny the fact that he came to power with a slim majority. In other words, his oppositionists or those who wish to undermine him are quite numerous. This is the nature of things, despite the fact that it is more prominent in Egypt because a revolution occurred, a regime has collapsed and the second republic was born. When the people criticized the performance of the People's Assembly, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) came up with the expression "the deep state" to describe the apparatuses which it said were preventing the People's Assembly from performing its tasks and trying to thwart the experience of the Islamic movement in parliamentary work. Following Morsi's victory in the presidential elections, the MB went back to using the term "deep state," believing that some of those working in the intelligence service, the state security apparatus and the executive administrations in the state represented that deep state, including the beneficiaries from and supporters of the former regime. It added that the latter were continuously promoting rumors to undermine the new president, and provoking crises and troubles to keep Morsi preoccupied from his tasks in managing the affairs of the state and implementing the renaissance project he had promised his voters during his electoral campaign. It also assured that they were now provoking factional demonstrations and pushing the disgruntled toward the presidential palace in the New Egypt suburb, in order to besiege the president and make him look as though he were unable to resolve their problems. These problems require time and effort and cannot be handled overnight. True, Morsi who is still struggling to earn his full prerogatives, is backed by revolutionary powers that do not belong to the Islamic movement in Egypt, but also by the Islamists themselves who can be mobilized on Tahrir Square at the first sign to support the new president and pressure the military council and the forces of the "deep state." However, what is also true is that Morsi did not assume power in a country whose economy is flourishing and whose people are living in comfort. It is known that any new president in Egypt in the post-revolution phase will face massive predicaments, that he must deal with a corruption which lasted decades and that his mission will be extremely difficult, not only because some are closely waiting for him to make a mistake or pushing people to obstruct his work, but also because the ceiling of the people's demands is extremely high. Moreover, the promises that were made by Morsi and the other presidential candidates were numerous, at a time when what was allowed under Mubarak's regime is no longer so after the revolution. Morsi himself had asked hundreds of thousands of demonstrators on Tahrir Square to come to him at the presidential palace if they had demands or wished to voice any injustice, assuring that the road was open for them because the era of closed doors was long gone! Those who subsequently headed to the palace, truly imagined that the man was sitting there, waiting for them! Naturally, the management of a state the size of Egypt with its history requires massive efforts and adequate circumstances, allowing the president to deal with the "deep state" without clashing with it, and deal with the oppositionists without acting like the former regime, which claimed that each detractor was an agent for a foreign state or a hater of Egypt. At the same time, the new president must take the citizens' interests into account, and set the foundations for the rise of the state in a climate featuring bickering between the elite and a race between the media outlets to seize any of his mistakes and shed light on them. Despite the revised Constitutional Declaration, the new president enjoys prerogatives allowing him to achieve all that. What is important is for him to know how to exploit the powers he enjoys, without relinquishing or dissipating them. The revised Constitutional Declaration has diminished the president's ability to proclaim war, interfere in the army affairs or legislate in the absence of parliament. All the issues are the object of debate and conflicts between the political elite groups. As to the simple people, they know that the president holds powers that enable him to resolve their problem, or at least save them from drowning in the deep state!
