CAIRO: Egypt's most successful opposition movement to date, the April 6 Student Movement, has announced it will launch a new anti-government campaign to “expose the regime's policy and the ruling party's failures.” On Friday, the movement known for organizing Internet and street demonstrations – said they plan to organize the second annual Electronic anti-National Democratic Party (NDP) conference, according to local newspapers. The group said that the slogan of this year's conference plans to be “yes, we know our priorities.” In the statement, April 6 movement leaders explained that the conference aims at unveiling the “lies” of the Egyptian ruling party, which “still goes through with their plans of using the media and some intellectuals who deal with the party to mislead the people of Egypt” and “to conceal many facts about what they failed in due to their policy, which implies full disappointment and failure to achieve stability of the nation and the will of the people.” In response to the National Party in the campaign, ” youth efforts,” the youth movement said it will be a model for the young Egyptian, who is aware of the priorities and the policies of “unbridled corruption” in the country. The Coordinator General of the Movement, Ahmed Maher, said the conference would include many “surprises” about what would be claimed by the party's achievements and that the movement “will strive to connect those facts to the Egyptian street and in political circles and international organizations to show the reality of Egypt to everyone away from the lies of the National party and its media conferences.” Egypt's NDP holds an annual party conference each fall that aims at giving direction for governance for the coming year. In recent sessions, the meetings have been widely publicized and have hosted prominent figures, who attempt to give a sense of transparency for the increasingly unpopular ruling regime. Ahmed Maher has been under much government pressure since April 2008, when the movement led a nationwide boycott and strike. The demonstrations that followed in the northern Delta town of Mahalla – home to the region's largest textile factory – gave the movement legitimacy after government security forces converged on the town to put down the massive street protests that left at least one person dead, hundreds injured and scores arrested. Since then, factory strikes and boycotts have sprouted up across Egypt, as anger at Cairo's apparent apathy continues to foment the opposition group led by young people, who have used Facebook and other Internet means of spreading their message. **reporting by Mohamed Abdel Salam BM
