{"id":10778,"date":"2023-08-07T20:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2023-08-09T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:55:06","slug":"dr-hossam-badrawi-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-independent-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/dr-hossam-badrawi-in-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-independent-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Hossam Badrawi in an exclusive interview with The Independent Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the presidential election race\u2026 d. Hossam Badrawi in an exclusive interview with The Independent Arabia on August 7, 2023<br \/>\n\u201cThe rotation of power in #Egypt is the only guarantor of sustainable development, and we need to change the status quo.\u201d<br \/>\nIn light of the political situation in which the Egyptian public scene is mixed, and supporters and opponents are scrambling over the \u201cpriorities and necessities of the stage,\u201d the Egyptian elite is in a state of anticipation of what the upcoming electoral events will be like, especially the presidential elections scheduled for next year, which come at a time when the economic challenges facing them are growing. The country is facing it, while the train of the national dialogue that actually started last May, more than a year after the presidential call for its convening, is proceeding, amid diverging visions and questions about its \u201cseriousness\u201d, after the discussion avoided everything related to national security and foreign policy. , and the country\u2019s constitution, and postponing the completion of the files of pretrial detainees and rights and freedoms.<br \/>\nIn the face of a reality that \u201cseems easy to describe, difficult to overcome its challenges, due to the absence of efficient management and the real application of ideas and solutions,\u201d according to the description of the Egyptian politician Hossam Badrawi, during his interview with \u201cThe Independent Arabia.\u201d There are many questions from politicians in the country about the seriousness of the existing authorities in opening up the public sphere. , unleashing rights and freedoms, allowing pluralism, as well as dealing effectively with the exacerbation of economic challenges, which were reflected in successive collapses of the national currency exchange rate, high inflation rates, as well as a decline in the level of foreign investments, and constant complaints of the public sector crowding out its private counterpart in the development process.<br \/>\nDr. Hossam Badrawi, a physician and a prominent politician, headed the National Party in the last days of former President Hosni Mubarak&#8217;s rule before the fall of his regime in 2011, and it was a choice that was accepted even by the opponents at the time, and he currently occupies the position of advisor to the National Dialogue, and he has extensive links with all currents In his dialogue, he stressed the need to \u201cimplement the philosophy of the constitution in justice and human development,\u201d as well as stressing \u201cthe importance of alternating power in the country, as the only guarantor of sustainable development, while achieving the principle of neutrality of state agencies in the upcoming elections to ensure their integrity, transparency, and non-alignment with the current president.\u201d Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, if he intends to enter the competition.<br \/>\nPolitics-focused dialogue<br \/>\nAccording to Dr. Badrawi&#8217;s description, the dialogue that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi called for in April 2022, &#8220;to discuss all issues&#8221; in Egypt, &#8220;is primarily political.&#8221; Explaining that it is \u201cbased on two main pillars, the first is justice and its application, and the second is human development.\u201d<br \/>\nDr. Badrawi goes on to explain his vision of the national dialogue, to which all Egyptian political factions were invited, with the exception of the \u201cBrotherhood\u201d group, which is classified as \u201cterrorist\u201d in Egypt. The philosophy of the constitution is in the rotation of power, freedom of expression, respect for different opinions, respect for freedoms, consideration of decentralization, and giving society space for its ability to express its political opinion, if it is not like that, then it is as if nothing happened.<br \/>\nHe continues, \u201cThe other side is justice, and it is extremely important, because there is no establishment of a state or its sustainability without strict application of the law,\u201d which requires, as he put it, \u201ca review of laws that restrict freedoms and other similar laws, and a review of pretrial detention, and what is going on in it.\u201d procedures,\u201d stressing that \u201cpretrial detention has rules and limits.\u201d<br \/>\nTo watch the full episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independentarabia.com\/node\/477886\/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9\/%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA\/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AE%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A5%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%85-%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B4%D8%AD?fbclid=IwAR39fjbeIRbvBADZ1I-6fdqZDyXlKsq4i2TL6u26Zir9xKanGZiW0oF_wXo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the presidential election race\u2026 d. 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He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hossambadrawi\/","https:\/\/x.com\/HossamBadrawi"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10785,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}