disgust
I've been sitting watching the political developments here and i've reached a point of utter disgust. I never thought that'd i'd actually feel this negatively, but i do. There is absolutely no hope for change, we knew that, but i had actually hoped that there was some shame left in those ruling this country, some hint of any kind of honesty, self respect, but even that seemed to have been too much to hope for.
The recent parliamentary elections have shown, once and for all, that we are ruled by a group of self serving, isolated hypocrites who will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo. The level of corruption and nepotism in this country is so high it smells and i must say that the stench is becoming unbearable. What can we do? What can the average person do? Absolutely nothing and that's how they want it to stay.
Yusif Wali, the vice head of the ruling National Democratic Party and the former long time (over 20 years) minister of agriculture is widely suspected (dare i say known) to be a corrupt figure, so corrupt in fact that he authorized the entrance into Egypt of pesticides that were internationally known to be harmful, he even went so far as to cancel the committee that regulated the importation of pesticides. For those that do not know, Egypt is heavily dependent on pesticides with one of the world's highest consumptions of such materials, considering the size of its agricultural land.
Anyway, to make a long and depressing story short, Wali was nominated again by the NDP in the parliamentary elections. What the hell were they thinking? Have they no shame? Ok, he lost in the second round but what'sthe difference here? Any self respecting party would not have nominated such a figure in the first place, but like i said, self respect and shame are not abundant charecteristics in this part of the world
I do not mean to pick on Wali in particular, he is just an example of the level of stench in the Egyptian political system. It's sickening, i really really feel disgusted at what i see here. I am not even going to mention the blatant cases of rigging, violence and voter intimidation that went on. All of those were well documented in some of the respected independent papers here. But this is what i mean, it becomes well know that a certain NDP candidate has won his seat by full blown rigging and intimidation, yet that person, without missing a beat, or flinching an eyebrow, goes ahead and gets his parliamentary documents. Again, no shame, no self respect, no nothing.
Before the elections, the president and the rest of the NDP kept talking and talking about the need to increase the political participation of women and Copts but then what happened? They nominated about 6 women and 4 or 5 copts i think, that's out of 444 candidates. That's one percent, one freakin' percent and with the exception of the one Coptic government minister, they all lost.
It would have been nice to see more Copts in the parliament to counterbalance the increased number of Muslim Brotherhood members there. Does no one think? Are they only after their own personal interests?
I used to hope not, but now i know that this is the truth. I don't think any amount of deodorant can cover a smell like this.
The recent parliamentary elections have shown, once and for all, that we are ruled by a group of self serving, isolated hypocrites who will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo. The level of corruption and nepotism in this country is so high it smells and i must say that the stench is becoming unbearable. What can we do? What can the average person do? Absolutely nothing and that's how they want it to stay.
Yusif Wali, the vice head of the ruling National Democratic Party and the former long time (over 20 years) minister of agriculture is widely suspected (dare i say known) to be a corrupt figure, so corrupt in fact that he authorized the entrance into Egypt of pesticides that were internationally known to be harmful, he even went so far as to cancel the committee that regulated the importation of pesticides. For those that do not know, Egypt is heavily dependent on pesticides with one of the world's highest consumptions of such materials, considering the size of its agricultural land.
Anyway, to make a long and depressing story short, Wali was nominated again by the NDP in the parliamentary elections. What the hell were they thinking? Have they no shame? Ok, he lost in the second round but what'sthe difference here? Any self respecting party would not have nominated such a figure in the first place, but like i said, self respect and shame are not abundant charecteristics in this part of the world
I do not mean to pick on Wali in particular, he is just an example of the level of stench in the Egyptian political system. It's sickening, i really really feel disgusted at what i see here. I am not even going to mention the blatant cases of rigging, violence and voter intimidation that went on. All of those were well documented in some of the respected independent papers here. But this is what i mean, it becomes well know that a certain NDP candidate has won his seat by full blown rigging and intimidation, yet that person, without missing a beat, or flinching an eyebrow, goes ahead and gets his parliamentary documents. Again, no shame, no self respect, no nothing.
Before the elections, the president and the rest of the NDP kept talking and talking about the need to increase the political participation of women and Copts but then what happened? They nominated about 6 women and 4 or 5 copts i think, that's out of 444 candidates. That's one percent, one freakin' percent and with the exception of the one Coptic government minister, they all lost.
It would have been nice to see more Copts in the parliament to counterbalance the increased number of Muslim Brotherhood members there. Does no one think? Are they only after their own personal interests?
I used to hope not, but now i know that this is the truth. I don't think any amount of deodorant can cover a smell like this.
posted by Caliph at 11:42 AM
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