CAIRO: Egypt's April 6th Youth Movement declared on Wednesday they are starting a campaign under the slogan “The eyes of Egypt 2012,” to monitor the presidential elections scheduled for May 23 and 24. It said it also adopted the slogan “participate, elect, monitor and boycott.” The Movement, which has not decided yet which candidate to support in the elections, is also willing to launch a website for the campaign bearing the same slogan “Eyes of Egypt.” It said it was “monitoring the Egyptian presidential Elections 2012 in order to document all violations through images and writing reports, for there are such violations on a regular basis,” according to a statement of the movement. Ingie Hamdi, a member of the political bureau of the Movement and responsible for the campaign, said that it aims “to monitor the presidential elections, despite the obstacles set by the Higher Presidential Elections Committee for the presidential elections,” adding that “the movement is keen to activate and train members to support popular monitoring of the elections through the groups' members and volunteers in Cairo and all governorates of the country for monitoring the electoral process and the protection of the electoral vote of fraud or any violations.” She said that the movement is currently training members of the governorates to monitor the elections, and the formation of operating rooms to receive reports of citizens for any violations, that may occur during the course of the electoral process, stressing that those members who are trained “will all be present at the polling centers to document any election fraud or irregularities that may occur and to send it directly to the movement to expose them to the public.” The Movement also urged citizens and political activists to “participate in the campaign and to send all documented violations to the site of the campaign for documentation.” It should be noted that the April 6th Movement had announced in advance it does not support a particular presidential candidate, except in the case of candidates who unite and agree on one revolutionary candidate, and start a campaign to isolate the remnants of the former regime.
