The Second Round (Ahmed Shafiq)

As promised in the end of my last post, I will discuss the 2nd round of the Egyptian Presidential elections. It is between the candidate of the Islamic political party backed by the Muslim Brotherhood “Mohamed Morsi” and the ex-vice president “Ahmed Shafiq”. So far, as a Christian in Egypt, I haven’t decided yet, I have to choose the lesser evil out of the two but thinking of it, one of them already killed me and the other will, so it is kind of hard to make such choice.

Starting with Ahmed Shafiq, he is basically the old regime of Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, electing him as president eliminates and deletes the revolution. He have declared more than once that he is against the revolution and the rebels, so one can only wonder what is he going to do to all of these rebels once he is president. He have also declared that he looks up to the ex president and that he is his role model. So by all means, he is the exact”OLD REGIME” that the people rose up against.

The question is how did he secure enough votes to get into the 2nd round if he is so hated?

I have discussed this during my podcast, the first portion of the votes he secured were bought, as mentioned he is backed by the old regime, so he has no problem with money, so buying votes of poor people is pretty easy. The second portion is the people who lie in the age group of over 45 years old, as they see that things were stable before the revolution of the 25th of January and they want things to go back as they were. And as mentioned Ahmed Shafiq represents the old Regime, so voting for him will make things go as they were before. And the third portion, although I have no proof, but I believe that many votes were fraud, because there are many dead people whose social security numbers are in the voters log, and they have the right to vote which is very suspicious.

Who is going to vote for Ahmed Shafiq in the 2nd round?

The people mentioned above, plus the people who are against any religious candidate, even if they are against Ahmed Shafiq, but they will have no other choice. People who voted for other candidates such as Hamden Sabahy and Abo el Fetouh or Amr Moussa, not all of them of course but some of them who are against the idea of a religious regime will vote for him.

Am I going to vote for Ahmed Shafiq?

I haven’t decided yet who my vote is going to, but voting for him would be against all I believe in, but on the other hand, so does voting for Mohamed Morsi. The moment that I decide who am I going to vote to, you will be the first to know.

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