CAIRO – Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Board and Editor-in-Chief of al-Bawaba News, Abdelrahim Ali, said on Saturday that the United States had one presidential candidate, namely George Washington, in the first presidential election after independence.
The same happened in South Africa, Ali said, when Nelson Mandel ran alone in the presidential vote.
He added at a debate with some western journalists that Egypt is just out of two revolutions and tough times after 2011.
He referred in the debate which was aired on private TV, al-Kahir Wal Nas, for him to comment on claims by western media on Egypt’s presidential election, to a conspiracy to divide Egypt.
The plan, Ali said, was for Egypt’s regional role to be strongly undermined. He added that Egypt has deep respect for those running for the top spot in it, has respect for their backers and deals with everybody within the framework of the law.
Ali said those who staged the January 25 revolution in 2011 wanted to achieve economic justice, freedom and human dignity.
We struggled a lot, he added, to have a modern democracy in our country, one that gives citizens a dignified life.
He said Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Egyptian parliament work now only to modernize the Egyptian state.
He noted that Egypt also works to eradicate terrorism.
Ali denied reports about the presence of enforced disappearances in Egypt.
He said nobody can name a member of the political opposition who had disappeared in the past.
Ali referred to a woman who was claimed by BBC to have disappeared in the past.
The woman, he added, turned out to have escaped her family house, got married and has a child now.
He noted that some of those claimed to have disappeared in the past had joined terrorist organizations, such as Daesh.
He referred to Omar Ibrahim who was rumored to have been arrested by Egyptian police, even as he joined Daesh since 2016, and was killed in a battle with policemen in Cairo a few months ago.
These two cases cast doubt on all stories about enforced disappearances in Egypt, Ali said.
He expected the presidential vote, which will kick off on Monday, to witness the highest voter turnout in the history of Egyptian elections.
He called on those who want to oversee the vote to apply and see the process themselves.
Ali added that Egyptians know the realities about the conditions of their country at present.
He noted that Egyptians also know that there are conspiracies to turn their country into “another Syria”.
Egyptians have to go to the polling stations so that their country can abort these conspiracies, Ali said.
They have to go to the polling stations, he added, to show the world that they respect democracy and have respect for their country.
He said President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is very popular among Egyptians, which is why he does not need to make any plots ahead of the presidential election.
He added that almost all Egyptians will go out on the three days of the election to express support to Sisi.
He noted that when French presidential candidates, Francois Fillon and Marin Loban, made mistakes, they were treated within the framework of the law.
This, he said, paved the road for an election victory by incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron.
Why should not the Egyptian state apply the law then when a presidential candidate violates this law? Ali asked.
He said the former chief of staff of the Egyptian army, Sami Anan, had to submit his resignation from the army before declaring a bid to run in the presidential election.
Ali he enjoys great freedom inside the Egyptian parliament and in his capacity as a member of parliament he opposed many decisions inside parliament, including the unified labor law.
He added that he also opposed what he described as “some sovereign” decisions.
He noted that the 25/30 Alliance is made up of the opposition.
Ali said legislators are fully aware of the dangers that surround their country and know the enormity of the danger represented by terrorism in Sinai.
Egypt fights terrorism on behalf of the whole world and pays dearly for this, Ali said.
He added that the members of parliament also know that this is the most critical phase in their country’s history and know that they have responsibilities they have to shoulder.
Ali went on to say that the Muslim Brotherhood wanted to hijack the whole Egyptian state.
He noted that the Brotherhood had a plan to divide the whole Middle East region.
It was the Egyptian people, Ali said, who designated the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and demanded its disbanding.
Ali said the members of parliament took the decision to disband the Brotherhood and the government only had to abide by this decision.
He said Egyptians cannot allow the Brotherhood to return to Egypt’s political stage, having divulged their evil plans.
He said no country in the world would accept the revolution as a condition to keep staying as a style of life forever.
He added that the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement was like a state within the Egyptian state.
He likened the Brotherhood to Nazi organizations, noting that the group had wanted to swallow the Egyptian state.
Ali said the Egyptian people had voluntarily renounced the Brotherhood and would not allow it to return to Egypt’s political stage.
He said none of Egypt’s government officials can start talking with the Brotherhood which finances terrorism everywhere in the world and kills the Egyptian people.
Ali went on to say that Brotherhood had to renounce violence and become one of the nation’s licensed political parties before returning to Egypt’s political stage.
He added that some of the political activists who were put in prison in recent years had breached the law.
He mentioned the case of political activist Ahmed Abu Doma who was filmed participating in the torching down of a historical library in downtown Cairo.
These activists, he said, only want to masquerade as revolutionaries, even as they break the law.
He called for rebuilding the Egyptian state within the framework of the law.
Ali noted that nobody is put in jail in Egypt for opposing the government or the president.
He added that people are put in jail only for breaking the law.
He said Egyptians, not the West, will bring their president and their parliament to account if they do not take decisions that serve the best interests of their country.
Ali added in the debate that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would have easily gained popularity by taking decisions that make the people happy.
Sisi, however, wants to rebuild his country which is why he is taking difficult and unpopular decisions, Ali said.
He added that Egypt fought terrorism and also moved ahead with its development.
President Sisi, Ali said, was courageous enough to take decisions that rescued the economy of his country and his people.
Egypt, he said, starts the implementation of one new project every day.
He added that a staggering 290 new projects are being implemented in Sinai as we speak.
When President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took over in mid-2014, electricity outages lasted 16 hours nationwide every day, Ali said.
Today, however, Egypt has plans to export electricity to other countries because it has enough of it.
He said decisions taken by President Sisi to restructure the economy today should have been taken more than 60 years ago.
He said the International Monetary Fund refused to offer a loan of $4 billion to the government of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, whereas it welcomed a request by Sisi’s government to borrow $12 billion.
This, Ali said, reflects the confidence this international financial organization has in this president and the work he does for his country.
Ali noted that Egypt was far from applying the rule of law for a long time in the past.
Following the June 30, 2013, revolution, he said, we saw a minister being arrested and a governor being arrested at his office.
He referred to the presence of policemen, ministers and governors behind bars for breaking the law.
Ali added that in the past governors, ministers and judges enjoyed immunity.
Now, however, he said, nobody is above the law and those who commit mistakes are brought to account, regardless of who they are.
Egyptians, Ali said, classify the Muslim Brotherhood movement as a whole as a terrorist organization.
In this, he said, they are different from other peoples who classified Nazi and the fascist individuals as terrorists after World War II.
Ali added that as an organization, the Brotherhood has its own roots in Egypt and in other Arab states.
Ali refuted claims about the presence of political detainees in Egypt. He said activists who get funding from some dubious organizations went to jail in the past for demonstrating without getting authorization in the light of Egypt’s protest and peace assembly law.
He said some political activists do not care about Egypt’s stability because they are paid to destabilize the country.
Ali said Egypt’s journalists did their work in full freedom and in full responsibility as well.
He added that as a concept freedom is different in Egypt from the West.
Egypt, Ali said, goes through exceptional circumstances and an existential war against terrorism.
He added that as a journalist nobody dictates to him what he should and should not write.
Nonetheless, I know my responsibility to my country’s national security, Ali said.
He said the judiciary was penetrated during the one-year-rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.
This, he said, made it necessary for Egyptians to take exceptional decisions in the transitional period that followed the downfall of the Brotherhood regime to end this penetration.
Ali noted that as an organization, the Muslim Brotherhood is totally managed from Western countries.
There is the threat, Ali said, of the Brotherhood invading all European countries.
He added at the televised debate that he warned against this invasion in his latest book on the dangers the Brotherhood pose to Western states, a book that was translated into English and French.
He added that the Brotherhood now has presence in France; the UK; Germany, and Switzerland.
He said in expanding in Europe, the Brotherhood makes use of the huge amounts of money it has.
the Egyptian economy, Ali said, suffered greatly as a result of the January 25 and June 30 revolutions.
He added that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi started his rule in mid-2014 with a meeting with a host of investors and businessmen.
During the meeting, Ali said, the president asked these investors and businessmen to contribute to building a new Egypt.
Some investors refused, however, to be part of this process or contribute to major projects, Ali said.
He said Sisi suggested that investors keep their profits within the 20-30 per cent margin.
Most investors rejected this, but the army accepted the same profit margin for the projects it implemented, Ali said.
He said the presence of the army in the business arena bridged a gap left behind by investors who refused to be part of Egypt’s rebuilding.
The army, he said, was the only state institution that backed the Egyptian people in its struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt, Ali noted, continues to face the threat of terrorism.
Conspiracies, he said, are still being hatched against this country.
He added that Egypt does not take revenge on its enemies.
If it did this, Ali said, Egypt would have executed ousted president Mohamed Morsi and his aides on the early days of the June 30 revolution.
He said the Muslim Brotherhood used terrorism to scare Egyptians from participating in the June 30 revolution.
Ali noted that Egyptians took to the streets on June 30 to put an end to what came to be known as the “rule of the Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide”.
Muslim Brotherhood members, on the other hand, staged an armed sit-in in eastern Cairo to attack the peaceful demonstrators who decided to protest against them, Ali said.
He added that the Brotherhood threatened to attack demonstrators protesting against Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi.
The Brotherhood’s eastern Cairo sit-in lasted for 60 days, Ali said, with the aim of bringing down Egypt as a state.
He said Brotherhood members instigated most bloody events during the anti-Morsi uprising, including their desire to take Morsi from the Presidential Palace by force, which caused clashes between them and presidential guards.
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