Those who participated in June 30
revolution, stood against muslim brotherhood long before that and went into the
street to support this revolution and stood in the side of president Sisi and the
Egyptian army shall start forming groups or spots nationwide to organize a
political party holding the name of this revolution and seeking to achieve its
goals…
In my opinion, this is the answer to
the serious questions asked by Dr. Huda Gamal Abdel-Nasser in her article
titled “what are we waiting for?” published in Al Ahram newspaper on October
15, 2016.
This answer is not out of my mind…
however, I got from a phrase Dr. Huda mentioned in her article pointing to what
happened in France at the beginning of the fifth republic headed by De Gaulle…
and how the republic’s supporters started to form the “Union for the republic”
party without having president De Gaulle at the head of that party or even as a
working member in it.
I realize the difficulty or even impossibility
of literally repeating historical experiments because it goes against what some
history philosophers call “consequence”… but I believe that getting out of
history has a main essential cause; that is not learning history lessons and
not reading them carefully and consciously.
In such context, Dr. Huda
represented a very important document; that is what president Nasser said when
he presented an accurate analysis for a pivotal era of our nation’s history and
the experiment of July 23rd, 1952 revolution… he also presented his
vision for how to respond to the very complicated domestic, regional and
international challenges that, away from exaggeration, is almost identical to
our present-time challenges… such document has its own value itself, especially
for history scholars and philosophers… but its greatest value lie in making use
of it on the current Egyptian political level…
I go back to what I called for when I
said that Egyptian nationals; supporters of June 30 revolution shall start
establishing the revolution party… I also suggest that the beginning should be
a series of planned discussions among all cadres who see themselves wanting and
capable of working over such experiment… so that a working program with time
schedule and objective contexts can result from such discussions to do the
mission.
However, I believe that the most
important task in my opinion is interpreting the awareness of all those cadres of
the reality of the current Egyptian political movement… meaning since the
success of January 25 revolution… because it’s a reality full of undeniable positivity
and other negative aspects blocking the way before any effort exerted to come
out of the current political work crisis.
My evidence here – that may look
pessimistic – is my reading for the reality of all political parties existing right
now in Egypt… starting from the communist far Left, passing by the Nasserite Arab-national
Left and reaching to the capitalist far Right… such reading reveals clearly the
political diseases spread in all those political orientations along with its
groups… as if those working in those political groups have adopted the same
mechanism of those aiming at dismantling our nation and turning our national fundamentals
into illusions.
Here, I think that as we have learnt
a historical lesson; that is the difficulty of establishing a political party
or group coming from the top authority… we also learn a contemporary political lesson;
that is the difficulty to establish a political party or group that is not immune
against the endemic diseases spread in our political environment.
Someone may say that this initiative
already exist and represented by the group or coalition of “Da’am Masr” or “Supporting
Egypt”… and that those belonging to this coalition are supporters of June 30
revolution and are close to its principles… and since they occupy parliamentary
positions, they are closer to achieve its goals…
I’m not about to give my opinion of
such coalition or its prominent leaders that it happened I know some of them
and we have mutual respect… however, what I’m about to do and ask everyone else
to consider and work hard to achieve is to come up with a political formula having
an organizational frame combining between liquidity that should exist in any
political orientation and discipline that should also exist in any political
form; whether party or organization… here, we shall talk about an intellectual
social economic political context that spreads along all Land of Egypt and that
is not limited to a specific mission with a time schedule which is the
membership of parliament and legislation authority.
And even if “Supporting Egypt” coalition
is in the opinion of its founders and members a representation of June 30
revolution… that shall exceed boundaries of legislative parliamentary mission
to broader scopes… meaning as broader as Egypt… and so the suggested new
formation shall widen the circle of its membership to include all who are
convinced that the way to face the standing challenges is the unity for June 30
republic.
On another side, the experiment and
also logic make us wonder about the role of the president regarding what we are
talking about… because the man always assures he is just an “individual… an
ordinary citizen… like the rest of people… and that he is not a leader…etc.”… however,
our reality assures that Sisi is an ordinary citizen… but in the same time, he
represents the historical individual and I won’t say “the heroic leader”… I here
mean by the historical individual, the citizen that historical circumstances
sent him to his nation to bear himself the burden, task and role that no one else
can bear… and in a way that necessitate we shall participate with him in
bearing such responsibility.
In my opinion, the president role in
the suggested political formation shall be the role of the Maestro in the
working team… that one who knows the task of every member in his team… starting
from tasks of the three authorities and separating between them… and ending by
the role of the rest of other national institutions like syndicates, organizations
and national efficient figures… It’s even certain that the president already
has a formation, even in the form of working teams or cells like those of
crises management and project execution… or we wouldn’t have witnessed such
magnificent harmony in achieving what was already achieved or under construction
in more than one place.
The question now: will those
specialized “cells” along with the youth who were qualified for leadership and
who became many hundreds or thousands be the infrastructure for that formation
that became a necessity and we have been long waiting for?... These were just
some questions wandering in the mind of those burdened by the nation’s
problems.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article
was published in Al Ahram newspaper on October 20, 2016.
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original article, go to:
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