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Article: In Focus: Wasat Party.
- Article from:
- Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2009
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I do not know why the Party Affairs Committee refused to give legal license to Al-Wasat Party. The reasons for the decision were not convincing at all. The announced reason behind the rejection is that Al-Wasat's program offers nothing new to the political arena in Egypt.
However, there were hidden reasons behind the decision. Since 1996, the party founders have applied four times to obtain the right to form a party, but all their requests were rejected.
The real reason behind rejecting Al-Wasat Party is that the Egyptian regime still insists on excluding all moderate Islamists from the political scene, and it still depends on the security approach in ...