Vice president of the National Center for Middle East Studies, Mohamed Mogahed, said that Egypt suffers from a political flood Wednesday. He said all political forces seek to mobilize followers and win the upcoming electoral battles for the parliament. Mogahed said that he is against political isolation for simple citizens who used to be in minor departments of the dissolved National Democratic Party, during a workshop held at the Faculty of Political Science at Cairo University. The political isolation law should be activated only against those who corrupted political life, profiteered, and acquired land with any right to do, he said. He said that 1952 revolution was criticized because it isolated many political powers. Mogahed said that the current caretaker government is taking strategic risks that should not be taken without solving daily obstacles facing Egyptian citizens. “The elite get involved with marginalized causes, overlooking the public vision, the new political regime, and the process to realize a new economic system in the next period,” said Mogahed. He also said that the army should not intervene in civilian life, as it is trained to deal with foreign enemies only.
