Egyptian Chronicles: Mass Rally Planned At Mubarak Return : We Have Seen It before

It seems that the National Democratic party has decided to threw a mass rally when Mubarak returns from Germany after his successful gallbladder surgery. The NDP is planning to have this rally at Cairo airport according to the NDP facebook invitations. The NDP wants a mass rally at the airport to show that Mubarak is more popular than Mohamed ElBaradei who received a hero welcome last February !! The NDP is more desperate than we think as it turned out.

The NDP or the regime does not understand that it is not about Mohamed ElBaradei but rather the ideas of Mohamed ElBaradei that made all those people from different backgrounds,areas and classes in Egypt to come and wait for him for 5 hours in their holiday !!

The NDP can make a mass rally , I am sure of this and we have seen before whether in Mubarak’s era when he returned back safely from Ethiopia after that assassination attempt or in the previous Nasser and Sadat era. The NDP or the nation party or the socialist union regardless of its name and time knew the secret : Simply gather poor workers from around the country in buses and promise them with money and hot meal and they will cheer for whomever you tell them to cheer for !!

Already news are leaking that the NDP at Dakhalia governorate is promising its youth with two meals and LE 50 plus transportation costs if they wait for Mubarak in the airport.

It is a sad thing but it is true and we got used to it, it will be fake rally because it is not about huge numbers , I swear if only 10 people have waited Mohamed ElBaradei on that Friday I would have considered this a victory for his ideas. Of course I am speaking in a language the regime can’t understand nor want to understand.

Already seriously I do not know why they would organize a mass rally , gallbladder is not a big thing not to mention Mubarak is too old to handle these mass gatherings !! Of course I am expecting that the President will call us from Germany asking the newspapers to reject any congratulating paid ads and the governors to ban congratulating banners which I bet are being prepared now by NDPians across the country to prove their love to their leader.

Anyhow the press is now speaking about the miracle German doctor who did the surgery as if we do not have great doctors in our country. On the other side I think it is better that he did it abroad because if something went wrong in the surgery the surgeon if not all the hospital and their families will go behind the sun.

By the way Hatem El-Gabli , our minister of health is not there for the President only but also he is in Germany because of his wife who is reportedly very ill , of course it is strange because Dr.El-Gabli is among the owners of Dar Al-Fouad Cleveland hospital , Egypt’s most expensive and best private hospitals.