On Monday, the Istiqlal movement announced its decision to nominate its leader, Ahmed Al-Fadali, head of the Democratic Peace Party. to run in the upcoming presidential elections, according to local Egyptian newspapers.
Al-Fadali had announced in 2018 his apology for not running in the presidential elections, indicating at the time that it was his party’s parliamentary body that pushed him to run.
And there were already question marks about Al-Fadali, who appeared in a video during what was known in the media as the “Camel Battle” alongside attackers on demonstrators in Tahrir Square in 2011, during the uprising against the rule of the late President, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak.
He was not convicted in this incident.
Thus, Al-Fadali becomes the latest to join the figures who announced their intention to run in the next presidential elections, which are expected to be held in the spring of 2024.
The head of the Wafd Party, Professor of International Law, Abd al-Sanad Yamama, announced his intention to run for the elections, adding in televised statements that he would announce his electoral program as soon as it was completed.
And from the same party, a member of the party’s supreme body, Fouad Badrawi, announced his candidacy for the 2024 elections, without it being immediately clear the feasibility of one party nominating two names.
It is noticeable that most of those who announced the decision to run previously announced their support for the current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and are public defenders of most of his policies.
The former opposition MP, Ahmed Tantawi, had announced from outside the country his intention to run for the upcoming presidential elections.
Tantawi, who was famous for saying in parliament in 2019, “I do not like President Sisi,” returned to his homeland next May, but said at the time that a number of his supporters had been arrested or “kidnapped.”
Human Rights Watch researcher Amr Magdy rules out holding “free elections” in 2024 after Sisi swept the 2018 elections against a single candidate he said he supported.
“People are arrested for posting on Facebook, and therefore no one feels safe to engage in any political activity,” he added, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
To accept the candidacy for the presidency of the republic, according to what is stipulated in Article 142 of the constitution, the candidate must be endorsed by at least 20 members of the House of Representatives, or supported by no less than twenty-five thousand citizens who have the right to vote in at least fifteen governorates, with a limit of The lowest thousand supporters from each of the provinces.
With regard to the timetable, the General Coordinator of the National Dialogue, Diaa Rashwan, confirmed earlier this month that, according to the articles of the constitution, the opening of candidacy for the upcoming presidential elections must be announced at a minimum of December 3, and the door to candidacy may not be opened before this date. According to what was reported by the official Middle East News Agency.
2023-06-26 14:20:51
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