Maat Foundation held a first series of discussion

on community peace of Egyptian political parties

5/11/2008

 

Maat Foundation for peace, development and human rights hold yesterday evening, in Flamenco Zamalek Hotel Its preliminary discussion series on " community peace within the Egyptian political parties," which dealt with the situation within the two liberal parties, the Democratic Front and Al Wafd.

 

Maat Foundation for peace, development and human rights is civil non-profit foundation subject to the law No. 84 of 2002. The Foundation is an extension and expansion of the activities of Maat Center for Juridical and constitutional Studies. As a complement to its efforts in the area of democracy and human rights. The Foundation believes that there can be no development, democracy and respect for human rights only if the dissemination and application of a culture of peace within the community. This aims to integrate the curriculum of Human Rights and the exploitation of its mechanisms and potential to achieve the goals and rules for establishing communication integrated development and ensure respect for the principles of democracy and human rights.

 

The seminar began with the political scientist Abdel Nasser Qandil words , which said that the law 40 of 1977, is responsible for undermining the work of Egyptian parties to make the party a monopoly on the owners of licenses granted by the party under the chairmanship of the Secretary-General of the National Democratic Party currently, and drew to the history of the Wafd Party before and after the Free Officers Movement In July 23, 1952 stressing that the most negative aspects of the law of parties is not admitting present parties the right of publicity in the notification, which led to the issuance of licenses for the party, figures close to the government without regard to the feasibility of their role in enriching political work and party, and held the responsibility of the National Democratic Party for emerging of conflicts within the parties.

 

About the experience of the Wafd Party Qandeel said it saw a new trend in April 2006 special in the way of conflict management to the presidency of the party and the emergence of the role of youth in order to activate the role of the General Assembly and stability is the presence of Mahmoud Abaza, on the seat of party chairman.

 

About The experience of the Democratic Front  party, he said it received the license in less than 3 months and emerged in May 2007 and successive crises came directly after the foundation of the largest movement of the resignations of its known leaders in the scientific, intellectual and political fields, in addition to a large number of them move away from partisan action, and he stressed that despite the success of the Front of Osama Ghazali Harb, but they have a conflict on terms of reference for the post of Secretary-General and the manipulation of the votes of members of the General Conference of the party, also yehia Ghazali Harb send an insulting message to the representative Mohamed Anwar Sadat, , in the context of the conflict with Al-Ghazali and Al- Sadat, as the party witnessed accuses of  its leaders of receiving a suspicious funds from Michael Munir one of the Coptic Diaspora to get a budget for the party nearly 800.000 pounds in record time, as a party hold activity with the Friedrich Naumann organization in violating of article 11 of the Code of the parties.

 

Essam Sheha the lawyer senior member of the Wafd Party said that the separate visions are behind the disparate of interests within the parties and partisan problem emerged after 1984 and that the problem of Al Wafd party was the presence of the list reflects the prevailing climate of leadership under the late Fouad  Serag  Eldin, which has been leading the party in which the eternal, and he confirmed that Noaaman Gomaa came to the post of party chairman by fair election, however problem of the conflict between the leader and President blew the situation in the events of Al- Wafd Party and was activating the role of the General Assembly to settle the dispute for the benefit of its members, although Noaaman Gomaa and forehead presented to judgment, this ended by identifying the presidential term of 4 years is Renewed once.

 

The Essam Sheha said that National Democratic Party interested of the survival of the internal party disputes to weakening opposition parties and the Egyptian democratic development, which the electoral program of President Mubarak demanding in his program, saying that "clannish" is anther disaster that threatens the stability of the community peace within the Egyptian political parties and the solution is amending the law to allow parties to appear and Similarly evolution For the NGOs and publication of newspapers, and stressed that the survival of President Mubarak at the head of the NDP means that the opposition parties facing the State itself even citizens left from engaging in political and party life and are not sure of any work of the feasibility of the party, especially that the National Democratic party adopt a phenomenon of marriage of power and wealth, and Sheha demanded for the Work on the first remerging of Egyptian citizen on public action and political life.

 

Independent Member of Parliament Mohamed Anwar Sadat, the founder of the Democratic Front Party, said that the National Democratic Party is responsible for the result to undermine the party to control the party, saying that the Democratic Front Party, including many of elites who far away from the political arena and public, preferring to convergence on themselves within the party headquarters until they disintegrated so quickly, He said that the activity of the party depending on  media work, although he does not have a newspaper, like other Egyptian parties, also accused the leaders of the party to the pursuit of human rights organizations to travel internally and externally without the real rehabilitation of party cadres in interactive with the man in the street and aimed to serve him.

 

He said the MP Ahmed Ezz offered him and his brother Talaat Sadat to join with the National Party, but on that Ezz tell the political leadership about the desire of Talat to be the chairman of the party and wished of his brother Mohamed to get the post of Secretary-General, but Ezz rejected his condition quickly, Sadat announced the formation of the "Parliamentarians for Change "to respond to changes in political and legal manufacture the majority of parliamentary government in the coming months in Egypt, Egyptian political parties took responsibility of the parties for the absence of alliance forced the government to build a serious commitment to dialogue with the parties and the demands of the Egyptian street, and said that the he and his brother will face Interior Minister in the parliamentary elections in 2010 but they are ready and are now on the people to get success and access to the parliament in the absence of judicial supervision on elections.

Sadat said that the collapse of the Democratic Front Party, backed to prevail interests within the family clannish the leadership at the expense of the idea of a party and the necessity of its presence in the Egyptian street, and stressed that he would take a decision on his presence in the party or not within weeks, and said that the presence of the conditions are threatening the community peace within the party Among its members especially the choices of the leaders of the party in provinces were appointed to the lack of internal regulation of the party.