CAIRO – 3 October 2023: Potential presidential candidate Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party held on Tuesday a press conference to announce his official announcement to run for the upcoming presidential elections.
“I don’t belong to the Muslim brotherhood group, and I’m not part of any kind of plays. I have a real program. I’m running for this election as a civilian, democratic alternative candidate capable of reforming the country’s current statues.” Zahran said.
During his speech at the conference, Zahran called on the state institutions to remain neutral during these elections in order to achieve fruitful and constructive cooperation between the regime and opposition parties.
“We need reason and wisdom within the ruling regime along with giving a chance for a democratic change.”
He added that the political life in Egypt needs to be revived again. “Roles of unions and civil associations must be restored. I am a democratic civil alternative; however, we will not change everything overnight; it will be a long road to change.”
Zahran met on Sunday with a group of women activists and those interested in women's issues.
During the meeting, Zahran and the activists held discussions on the reasons that prompted Zahran to announce his candidacy in the presidential elections.
Discussions also covered Zahran’s presidential program and vision regarding several urgent topics and issues that concern Egyptian women and impact families as a whole.
Zahran, a prominent opposition politician, has obtained enough endorsement to run in the upcoming presidential elections as he secured last week 20 endorsements from House of Representatives’ members.
President Abdel Fattah Sisi announced, on Monday, his nomination for the Egyptian 2024 presidential election due to convene on December 10, 11, 12.
"As I have heeded the call of the Egyptians before, today, I answer their call again. I have decided to nominate myself to complete the dream in a new presidential term. I promise you, God willing, it will be a continuation of our joint efforts for the benefit of Egypt and its people,” President Sisi said at the closing session of a three-day conference “Story of A Homeland.”
President Sisi also called upon all Egyptians to participate in the presidential elections and choose the one who is suitable if even he were not elected.
The President said that what he did with the state’s institutions is for the sake of the homeland, adding that he has exerted efforts and kept his promise as much as he could.
“We, the Egyptians, have achieved a historic epic, as we have surmounted despair and disappointment, and reclaimed our beloved Egypt from the clutches of the group of darkness and treachery,” he said in an indication to the banned group of the Muslim Brotherhood.
“We have encountered heinous terrorism that sought to undermine our resolve; and our good land was watered with the blood of the righteous martyrs, who were from the most virtuous sons of Egypt,” President Sisi said.
He added that the will of the Egyptians is the main drive and fundamental incentive to complete building the country.
“We renew our pledge, together, to work toward completing our dreams for our beloved Egypt and precious homeland, which was watered with the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of all Egyptians; a great and powerful homeland established on the foundations of social justice, human dignity, and a state of institutions that secures for its citizens a decent life. For the sake of our dreams, we will work together to achieve this end,” President Sisi said.
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