Dueling Political Conventions in Egypt
October 31st, 2008 by Jason
On November 1-3, Egypt’s ruling NDP will hold its fifth annual convention, in which it is ostensibly supposed to review the past year and suggest policy prescriptions going forward. In the Daily News Egypt, Khalil Al-Anani previews the conference. He predicts no new policy breakthroughs, and discusses issues the NDP would address if it were actually serious about redressing the past year’s ills.
Daily News Egypt also reports that the April 6 Youth Movement, a group of young pro-democracy Egyptian bloggers and facebook activists, announced it will hold an online convention to critique and respond to the NDP conference. Movement founding member Mohamed Abdel Aziz said the objective is “waking up the Egyptian people from the manipulation of the NDP members through their imaginary roles and accomplishments.”
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