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With less than a month left for the
first presidential elections after the 25th January revolution, many
Egyptians haven’t yet made up their minds concerning the candidates they are
going to vote for. We asked some of the student at the American University in
Cairo who are they going to vote for and why and these were their opinions.
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I’m Ahmed Hussein, political science
major and I’m a senior. I’m going to vote for Khaled Ali although he’s a
socialist and I’m not but I think that he’s the one who can make the change not
Aboul Fotouh or anybody else because he’s been fighting for workers and peasants’
rights for a long time since 2006 I guess. I mean I’m sure he is going to be
the one who would be good at defending their rights.
My name is Dina Abdel Moneim, I’m a psychology
senior and I will not be participating in the upcoming presidential elections
because so far it’s just been a big joke; people have been disqualified left
and right, we don’t know the reasons why, we don’t have a constitution, we don’t
know what the president is going to do, we’re still under this dictatorship, any
kind of elections under this kind of dictatorship is not democratic and should
not be taken seriously and that’s it. I mean there are more important things to
do right now like implement the constitution, create a representative
constitutional body, overthrow this army of dictators that is ruling over us so
presidential elections that’s the last thing we need to do right now.
I’m Omar, major political science,
Middle Eastern studies but I’m not voting actually, I would ideally vote for
Khaled Ali if he had a chance but I’m not voting because pragmatically any
person who is coming is going to dig our own grave.
Sarah Salib, architectural engineering,
I’m going to vote for Aboul Fotouh because he’s the best one available, he’s
the least worse. We can’t know for sure what he’s going to do in the future but
I’m optimistic because Egyptians have proven that they can revolt at any time,
so if he does something that is not really in our benefit, they’re going to go
against him.
NADEEN: But the copts are like a
minority, they’re only 10 percent of the population, do you think it’s going to
be effective if only this portion..?
I think religious freedom is the
thing that we need to worry about most; I think that the rights of all
Egyptians go together so it’s not going to be like that.
I think
religious freedom is the thing that we need to worry about most; I think that
the rights of all Egyptians go together so it’s not going to be like that.People interviewed: Ahmed Hussein, Dina Abdel Moneim, Omar El Sabee, Sarah Salib
Music used: Sahran Wayaki, Sahara Band
Produced by: Mariam Rizk and Nadeen Shaker
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