Influential NDP members are drawing a veil over a rebellion in Beheira and Dakahlia led by a group of 2002 graduates planning to declare the so-called NDP Salvation Front in protest against the results of the recent grassroots elections which led to the exclusion of a young NDP elite and a group of NDP old guards. Real unemployment ends up in the Mediterranean and partisan unemployment ends up in the Brotherhood Sea. Both are unfathomable seas.
The confession of the NDP Secretary General Safwat el-Sherif that the party is pregnant with illegitimate children generated by the NDP candidacies is not enough.
The attempt to underestimate the magnitude of the crisis will inevitably lead to the sinking of the vessel. The secretary should be proficient as the captain who never ignores a fire broke out in the passenger cabins. Turmoil causes the vessel to overturn. The sinking of Mamdouh Ismail's vessel is a lesson for men of understanding. Ismail was NDP member.
The secretary general was polite when he described the overwhelming rejection and resignations and the sorrowful cables to the Presidency as unacceptable. Phrase coinage is not like face-slapping. Several matters in the Secretariat require the secretary general to do things more than phrase coinage.
The secretary general's placatory policy will not quench a fire, as the rebellion has spilled over from el-Beheira and Dakahlia into Menya. I think that the reports of the three provinces are in front of him.
The secretary general should look down at the bottom to assess the situation, bring the officials to account and punish those who have not played their roles. If an NDP register failed in Aswan Ezz would be responsible for its failure in his capacity as secretary of the organization.
Regardless of the rebellions and the angry reactions from the greedy NDP members, how can the secretary general accept a loss for the Party through unopposed victory, two seats in el-Salam and a third in Belkas?
The party is suffering from an excess of candidates and organization secretary jettisons the surplus into the Muslim Brotherhood Sea to maintain price stability. The price of a person has been doubled. The cost of membership card is now five pounds.
The Ezz group has forgotten to complete el-Salam list and has fielded an inmate in Meit Ghamr. I have doubts. The Muslim Brotherhood declared their victory after they became sure that they have won the two seats in el-Salam unopposed.
This is skullduggery. The Guide was seen lying on the scruff of his neck in fits of laughter at the party's concerns that the Brotherhood may creep into the NDP lists under cloak of darkness – a scandal – or in broad daylight – a bargain – like the 2005 Menoufiya deal.
I hope that Kamal el-Shazli break his silence and discuss with the secretary general how did the MB blue-collar candidate win in the constituency of the organization secretary Ahmed Ezz, the NDP white-collar candidate in Menuf. Menoufiya has become a Brotherhood bastion.
I'm afraid that the recent threat by the secretary general to bring the errant officials to account is a placatory statement meant for partisan consumption. I am afraid that his anger will end up in punishing the poor workers in the headquarters. In sizeable-but-less-influential parties those who are not financially powerful has not power.
Ezz has monopolized the party just as he monopolized steel. Ezz has become the party and the party has become an estate. Ezz has deleted el-Dekheila from advertisements and he will write off the party.
We will not argue with the secretary general when he describe what is happening in the three provinces as unacceptable, but we have to look at the size of rejection that he is trivializing. He says it is not exceeding 10% of candidates in the three provinces, but I think it is a sufficient percentage to declare a NDP salvation front.
