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Interview by Dr. Hossam Badrawi on the “Think Again” platform

Interview by Dr. Hossam Badrawi on the “Think Again” platform on February 26, 2024
Among the most prominent questions in the dialogue: What is Dr. Hossam Badrawi’s opinion about the deal that the government recently announced, and is this a solution to the economic crisis?
Dr. Hossam’s response was as follows:
There is no doubt that direct investment in the deal that was announced is more than excellent, but we must know that
Financing our hard currency needs through real estate deals (land and buildings) are short-term solutions. Its philosophy is to overcome the immediate crisis.
I do not diminish the achievement, but I build on it.
The challenge facing the Egyptian economy is a challenge in its structure, the manifestation of weak production, limited exports, and fluctuations in foreign currency sources (Suez Canal, decline in remittances from Egyptians abroad, tourism, energy exports).
We need a deep restructuring within the framework of a future vision and specific priorities.
I say this, and I am not an economic expert, but I monitor, use my mind, think, and compare. As for the details of the strategy that must be followed, they are the responsibility of the state’s economic experts, and it should not be a secret that no one knows, but it must be specific in time and cost, and have indicators for measurement and monitoring by Parliament, the media, and civil society. (Which is a challenge in itself).
This means that what we are proposing has a political aspect of the first degree and will not exist to confront an economic emergency that the country is going through after which things will return to the way they were, but it is a challenge that requires political solutions.
The political aspect requires a parallel change to allow for the emergence of sustainability in economic implementation, transparency, evaluation, and selection of the most competent, not the loyal and the hypocritical.
I repeat that Egypt’s future is based on the pillars of justice, human development, efficient administration, ensuring citizens’ rights to health, education, housing, and public transportation, providing opportunities, and raising citizens’ capabilities to make the best choices and obtain the benefits of that.
To view the entire interview…please click on the following link:
https://www.fakartany.net/…/%d9%81%d9%83%d8%b1-%d8%aa…/

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people