虽然选举的实施相对容易，但自由却更难以建立和维持，因为后者需要相关机制 — — 比如一个拥有中立法庭的司法系统，但这些机制却是埃及目前所不具备，并要花费多年才能建立的。
While elections are relatively easy to stage, liberty is far more difficult to establish and sustain, for it requires institutions – such as a legal system with impartial courts – that Egypt lacks, and that take years to build.