#Monazarat : #Moussa Vs. #AbuElFotoh

And it is the big night tonight ; the Presidential debate millions of Egyptians have been waiting for between Amr Moussa and Abu El Fotoh.
Now the actual debate will be at 9 PM CLT on ONTV , ONTV live , Dream TV and Dream TV2 where as there will be analytical studio “just like in football matches” on air starting from 7.30 PM. The debate itself will be moderated by Yosri Fouda and Mona El Shazly
According to news report the presidential debate is not being followed anxiously by Egyptians only but also by Arabs as well so I hope it will be something we as Egyptians proud of.
Here is the Live stream of the big debate from Al Masry Al Youm YouTube channel.

Egypt’s first presidential debate between Moussa and Abu El Fotoh

I will be blogging the debate insh Allah live.

#Egyelections : Egyptians abroad to Vote Tonight

Egyptians abroad will start officially the Egyptian presidential elections race starting from tonight based on each country’s timing when they start to choose the presidential candidates and cast their votes in the first multi-candidates presidential elections held in Egypt after the revolution of #Jan25.

Now to the language of numbers :

• According to SPEC 586,801 Egyptians abroad have registered to vote in the presidential elections in 166 countries.
• The top ten countries Egyptians have registered from are : Saudi Arabia “261,924” , Kuwait “119,234”, UAE “61,427” , Qatar “32,836” , USA “27,3219” , Canada “11,892” , Italy “10,038”, Oman “9109” , Britain “6,225” and France “5925”
• Here is the guidelines and procedures of elections guidelines for Egyptians abroad by SPEC. 

Now Egyptians in Eastern USA can go to the official website of the Egyptian consulate In New York city to the follow the presidential elections voting procedures.

Egyptian community members in Kuwait report that the Egyptian ambassador there refused to let a local Kuwaiti NGO to observe the Presidential elections to observe the elections despite it was granted the right to observe the elections before in Egypt and in other countries. Of course this NGO may have not granted the right to observe the elections from SPEC and not the embassy. Still according to tweep Hossam El Amir there are no transparent boxes for elections in the embassy.

#Egyelections: The presidential candidates platforms

It is only 72 hours from the actual start of the presidential elections as Egyptians abroad will inaugurate officially the elections in the Egyptian embassies and consulates in all over the world on May 11th,2012.
Strangely despite the presidential elections will start after few hours and we have not seen any presidential platforms except from 7 presidential candidates "Abdel Moneim Abu El Fotoh ,Ahmed Shafik, Amre Moussa , Mohamed Morsi , Khlaed Ali , Hamdeen Sabbahi and Mohamed Salim El Awa" out of 13 candidates !!
Here are the Presidential candidates Platforms in Arabic arranged by the presidential candidates' names below after the break.

Breaking : Administrative court suspends Presidential elections !!!!

Al Ahram newspaper has just reported on its official website that the administrative court in Qalubiya has issued a court ruling to suspend the Supreme presidential elections committee decision to hold the presidential elections next May 23rd and 24th !!
According from what I understand the administrative court saw that we can’t have presidential elections.

Updated #1 :

According to MENA this court ruling was taken because the one that should call the voters for elections is SCAF instead the Supreme presidential elections committee “SPEC”.
The government has the right to appeal the court rule tomorrow.
Lawyer Wael Bahget is the man who stands behind this surprising court ruling and from hearing him now on TV I know that he got Islamophobia.

I saved the country from civil war !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bahget said hinting out the warnings of Muslim brotherhood of going back to the street if there is electoral fraud as well the rage of Abu Ismail’s supporters.
People are extremely worried from delaying the presidential elections , we can’t be dragged to this trap. I am extremely worried already.
Of course now some people will curse the administrative court and considers it as an accomplice with SCAF in delaying the democratic transition after praising the administrative court order to suspend the decision of  presidential elections committee to have Shafik back in the presidential race !!
At the same time you will have that small group of boycotters will be very happy and think that people will go back to the revolutionary track.
I have reached a point already in this time in Egypt that I do not understand anything because simply makes any sense or any logic anymore !!

Updated #2 :

Now from the ministry of foreign affairs we know that the presidential elections will be held on Friday as it was decided there will be no delay in the elections. 

As another source , this time a judge in the State commissioners following the administrative court says there will be no delay in the elections !!

Updated #3 :

SPEC has issued a statement on Thursday , the presidential elections will be held in time , nothing is going to be changed. 

#EgyElections : Presidential campaigns TV ads "Updated

Since the start of the presidential campaign officially since last week and we began to be showed with Presidential candidates TV ads in Egyptian TV channels.
In this post I will share with you the Egyptian presidential candidates by Alphabetic order and it will be updated as soon as there are new ads.
The ads are after the break

And France has got a new president called #Hollande

Dear Egyptian chronicles readers meet France’s new president Françoise Hollande , the second socialist president to rule France after Francoise Mitterrand

President Hollande of France

The 24th President of France is a socialist and he won in the runoff of the French presidential elections by 51.9% of the votes.
Of course I will not deny that I am happy that Sarkozy has lost the elections , the dear friend of Mubarak.
What I care is now the Egyptian French Relations post revolution in time of new presidents , not only a new president as insh Allah hopefully we will have a new president in 3 months. We are speaking about economic relations , political relations as well military relations aside from cultural relations.
We used to have good relations with Mitterrand so I wonder how it will be the relations not only with Hollande but with Mr. X who will become Egypt’s fifth president insh Allah.
Now this is a fact that the Egyptian national TV announced that Hollande won before he was officially declared the winner in his own country by 40 minutes !! 

Is not this conflict of Interest ?

Dr. Mohamed Morsy , the official presidential candidate of Muslim brotherhood in the presidential race and the leader of the Freedom and Justice Party has got two children that were born in California , United States.
According to all sources his children got the American citizenship.
Now Morsy is not the only one to have children or grandchildren with American citizenship because I think that Amr Moussa’s grandson is also a British citizen as his father Ahmed Ashraf Marwan got the British citizenship and his daughter lived in UK during their marriage. “They divorced later and Hania Moussa lives in Egypt”
There is nothing in the current presidential elections law that speaks about the presidential candidates’ offspring nationality but one must wonder about their loyalty and the conflict of interest here especially when it comes to Morsy’s children and grandchildren as we are dealing with the American Egyptian very critical and complicated relationships here.
It is not about racism here but we need a direct answer and a guarantee that Egypt’s best interest will be above all.

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