Two years have passed after the revolution of June 30, and 16 months since General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in Egypt. Yet, with the approach of the Parliamentary election, I find myself for the first time in my life not interested in them.
I have always participated in the elections and encouraged the others to participate even when I traveled to Paris.
However, this time I don’t really care! I don’t want to know about the candidates or the schedule of the elections. I have no desire to participate or encourage the others to participate.
I don’t know the reason behind such bad feelings. Does it have something to do with president al-Sisi, his retinue or the journalists who defend the man and try to make a dictator out of him?
I think that many people share these feelings with me. We are frustrated as our country didn’t become better as we expected. We are not better than the days of Mubarak.
We dreamt about the establishment of a modern civil state that adopts a moderate religious discourse, but we found those adopting such religious discourse in prison and those who call for violence are set free.
We thought that we got rid of those trading on religion, but we found the state using those religious parties and disrupts the articles of the Constitution that prevent the establishment of parties based on religion.
Despite all this, I will participate in the voting process and invite everybody to do the same in order to stop the Islamic current from taking over the next parliament. I believe that there is some agreement between the Islamic current and the state to be present in the parliament and use such presence to play the game as they wish.
So I hope everybody participates in elections, as a way of peaceful struggle. This is the least to do in order to build our country.
