A poll done by Al Ahram newspaper found that 89.11% of the Egyptian youth surveyed (between 18 and 35 years old) don't belong to a political party and that 69.6% of them don't have an election card. The results, though expected, reflect a sense of despair among our youth, as many of them lost trust in the present parties that failed to develop realistic electoral programs to address the issues that concern Egypt's youth.
The ruling National Democratic Party does nothing than issuing statements without real change and the opposition parties failed to invent solutions to the problems our youth face and they are satisfied with just saying NO to the government plans without offering a real alternative.
I believe that if we told any of these governments that they will rule Egypt tomorrow they will Panic, as none of them has a realistic program or a program at all to govern the country. They’re caught up in internal conflicts about leadership, like what we saw lately in Al Wafd party, and they have no real presence in the Egyptian street.
These parties have failed to earn the trust of Egyptian youth because they have done nothing to earn this trust. And the negative attitudes of the Egyptian youth, that was reflected in the poll, is not a result of ignorance or carelessness, but it is a scream of protest against political opportunism of parties that offers nothing but hollow slogans.
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