Egyptian Democratic Unity Party’s Platform

Egyptian Democratic Unity Party’s Platform

PREAMBLE

Egyptian Democratic Unity Party personifying the ideals, hopes, aspirations and proposals for action of the Party and its candidates.

Egyptian Democratic Unity Party is built on Egyptian and Arab Nationalism, Religious Freedom, multiparty system, and representation of all religious and political ideology in government.

It is to this end and for this purpose that this Ideology of Egyptian Democratic Unity Party is designed. Herein will be set forth the policies, attitude, proposals and position of this Party and its candidates, with matters of deepest concern to the average Egyptian, his home, his family, his property, his employment, his right to safety and security in the pursuit of the activities of his daily life, his right to freedom from interference and harassment from and by the government at all levels and, lastly, his pride in himself and this nation and all that it has stood for.

This document treats both foreign and domestic policy and is basically designed to present the proposals and action programs of this Party and its candidates in the area of:

·         Peace abroad and domestic tranquility at home.

·         An enlightened and advancing educational program.

·         Job training and opportunity for all Egyptians willing and able to seek and bold gainful employment.

·         An alliance and partnership with the private sector of our economy seeking an end to poverty among our people.

·         Efficiency and prudence in governmental spending leading to a helpful and stable economy.

With these cardinal principles in mind, we herein set forth the precepts of our Party and Candidates in the following areas of concern:

DOMESTIC POLICY

Our Ideology for Domestic Affairs as follows:

·         We support a secular Government

·         All religious mainly Coptic, Sunni and Shia will be appointed to top posts in Executive and Judicial Branch of Government. In the Parliament, The Government shall appoint 10 Shia and 10 Copts.

·         Form a National Interfaith Commission, to provide a platform of understanding, respect and stability in Egypt and the Arab world.

RELIGIOUS  FREEDOM

We affirm every citizen’s right to apply religious values to public policy and the right of faith-based organizations to participate fully in public programs without renouncing their beliefs, removing religious objects or symbols, or becoming subject to government imposed hiring practices.

Respectful of our nation’s diversity in faith, we urge reasonable accommodation of religious beliefs in the private workplace. We deplore the increasing incidence of attacks against religious symbols, as well as incidents of anti-Semitism on churches.

We support the right of Christians and Muslims to engage in student-initiated, student-led prayer in public schools, and ceremonies.

Forcing religious groups to abandon their beliefs as applied to their hiring practices is religious discrimination. It will be prosecuted, If it is a Commercial or any organization the license will be revoked. This will result in a Criminal manner.

The war we wage against terrorists is not a battle of faiths. We recognize that acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. We know that in this struggle against terrorism free nations have strong allies, of every faith, including millions of people in the Middle East who want to live in freedom.

Our Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion and forbids any religious test for public office, and it likewise prohibits the establishment of a state-sponsored creed, and accurately reflects the Islamic-Christian heritage of our country.

Our Party supports a close Identification with Christians and Muslims Religious values.

Our party opposes the Government to seizure of any religious property.

THE NATIONAL JUDICIARY

Our forebears, in building our government, wisely provided and established, in the Constitution of Egypt, that the National Government should consist of three branches, the Legislative, represented by the Parliament, whose duty and responsibility it is to enact the laws; the Executive, represented by the President, whose duty it is to enforce the laws enacted by the Parliament; and, the judicial, whose duty and responsibility it is to interpret and construe those laws, not to enact them.

Coptic, Sunni and Shia shall be appointed as judges Judicial Branch of Supreme Court.

The Constitution of Egypt provides that the judicial power of Egypt shall be vested in a Supreme Court and in such inferior courts as the Parliament shall from time to time ordain and establish; and, further, that the judges of the judicial courts shall hold their offices for four years.

It shall be our policy and our purpose, at the earliest possible time, to propose and advocate and urge the adoption of an amendment to the Egypt Constitution whereby members of the national judiciary at District level be required to face reviews of their judgments by the Executive branch.  

PRIVATE PROPERTY

We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every Egyptian citizen. We feel that private property rights and human rights are inseparable and indivisible. Only in those nations that guarantee the right of ownership of private property as basic and sacred under their law is there any recognition of human rights.

JOB OPPORTUNITY AND THE POOR

We feel that the matter of our citizens in need and the existence of job opportunities are so closely related as to warrant concurrent consideration.

We are convinced that the average Egyptian believes in the inherent dignity of gainful employment, preferring this method of attaining a livelihood to any welfare grant or benefit not earned through his own efforts. For this reason we consider the solution to the problem of our needy citizens, capable of gainful employment to be the provision of job opportunity. This will be the goal of our Party and our administration.

Our first consideration will be the inclusion of private industry in this program and effort. We believe that the private sector of our economy has the will and capability of providing a solution to the problem of poverty much more promptly and efficiently than any or all governmental programs. Based on this premise, we will work in partnership with private industry in a program mutually beneficial to each to provide these job opportunities. We propose to make this program economically attractive to industry and other means of economic benefit, believing fully that the answer to this problem lies in the vigor and capability of our tremendous free enterprise system.

We would propose that the national government aid and assist in a well-designed program of job training or retraining for those in need thereof. This will be at the vocational school and lower level, depending on the needs of the trainees. We will encourage and assist the states in programs of job training or retraining through realistic productive efforts in this respect, including assistance to the establishment and maintenance of vocational trade schools and other like institutions designed to provide skilled and semiskilled personnel for industrial employment, as well as means whereby 'in-training" programs can be carried out by private industry in cooperation with government.

In the event a public works program becomes necessary to provide employment for all employable Egyptians, we will provide such a program assuring, however, that these programs be needful and productive and that the participants engage in labor beneficial to the nation and its economy rather than becoming wards of the government and the recipients of gratuitous handouts.

For those unemployable by reason of age, religion, infirmity, and disability or otherwise, provision will be made for their adequate care through programs of social services based on the requirements and needs of these persons. We hold that all Egyptians are deserving of and will have the care, compassion and benefits of the fullness of life.

HEALTH CARE

It is the obligation of a responsible government to help people who are unable to help themselves. There should be adequate medical assistance available to the aged and those unable to afford treatment. This can best be achieved through national government. It should be strengthened in conjunction with medical care provided to state and local governmental levels.

·         Building National Hospitals in all provinces. Free to all Egyptians with low income

·         Employ locals to each Hospital

·         Amend policy to all invests and business to provide Health insurance to their employees

NATIONAL ECONOMY

The national economy must be restored to and maintained in a healthy, viable posture under conditions assuring to each individual, the opportunity to participate in and enjoy the benefits arising from a real prosperity This nation achieved its economic greatness under a system of free enterprise, coupled with human effort and ingenuity, and thus it must remain. This will be the attitude and objective of this Party.

·         Promote Tourism

·         Promote foreign investment to every province in Egypt

·         Promote free Trade with Arab Nations, China, Europe and The United States

We will support and assist business and industry in those areas needful and desirable, such as in the area of small business.

We will enforce those laws designed to protect the consumer and wage earner, but will eliminate those programs and agencies serving only to harass and intimidate our business community.

To achieve these goals and objectives, we would use government for the strengthening of the free enterprise system rather than the replacement of the free enterprise system by government. We believe that strength and confidence in the Egyptian political and economic system will tend to encourage domestic and foreign private investment and prosperity in our economy.

We would propose that effective use be made during our administration of economic advisors dedicated to the preservation and strengthening of our economic freedoms in the areas of enterprise, labor and marketing.

Our administration will be dedicated to the maintenance of prosperity and price stability in our economy. We will institute a strong anti-inflationary fiscal, monetary and debt management policy in our nation as the first requirement to solving international problems.

We feel little is done to curb inflationary trends in the nation's economy.

LABOR

Egypt achieved its greatness through the combined energy and efforts of the working men and women of this country. Retention of its greatness rests in their hands.

Through the means of their great trade, these men and women have exerted tremendous influence on the economic and social life of the nation.

The concern of this Party is that the gains which labor struggled so long to obtain not be lost to them either through inaction or subservience to illogical domestic policies of our other national parties.

We propose and pledge:

·         To assert leadership at the national level toward assuring labor its rightful reward for its contribution to the productivity of Egypt;

·         To propose and support programs designed to improve living and employment conditions of our working men and women;

·         To Form a National Labor Unions, to protect and lobby for labors for increase of pay and equality.

·         To provide for and protect the working men and women in the exercise of democratic processes and principles in the conduct of the affairs of their organizations, free from threats, coercion, or reprisals from within or without such organization;

·         To support programs and legislation designed to afford an equitable minimum wage, desirable working hours and conditions of employment, and protection in the event of adversity or unemployment;

·         To add efficiency and dispatch to the actions and activities of the National Labor Relations Board, resulting in more prompt decisions by this agency;

·         To pledge and assure that labor will be adequately represented in all deliberations of this Party and its administration of the affairs of government;

FOREIGN POLICY

The Ideology of our foreign affairs is to promote;

·         Arab Nationalism

·         United Christians and Muslims Arab world with lack of violence and discrimination.

·         A pro-western policy

·          pro-Arab Unity

·         Free trade with all Arab Nations

·         Advocate national and defense security with Arab States

·         Maintain and honor peace with Israel

·         Protecting the Palestine human rights and cause

·         Ant-terrorist groups, wage war on Al Qaeda

CONCLUSION

This Platform represents the attitude, policy, position, judgment and determination of this Party with respect to the major problems confronting Egypt.

We believe that our analysis of the nature of these problems is in keeping with the feelings of the great majority of our people. We further feel that our approach to solution of these matters is sound, logical, practical and attainable and in keeping with the basic, inherent good judgment of the Egyptian people.

Among other proposals:

We offer opportunity for early peace to a nation at war.

We offer order and domestic tranquility to a nation sorely beset by disorder.

We offer a program of job opportunity for the jobless.

We offer a return to respect for the law and an opportunity for every citizen to pursue his daily activities in safety and security.

We offer to relieve our citizens, their businesses and institutions, from harassment and intimidation by agents of the national bureaucracy.

We offer the laboring man and woman an opportunity to provide for himself and his family a better and fuller life and a greater democratic freedom in the management of the affairs, free from intrusion by the national government.

We offer to restore the dignity, strength and prestige of this nation.

And, above all, we offer to each individual citizen a system of government recognizing his inherent dignity and importance as an individual and affording him an opportunity to take a direct hand in the shaping of his own destiny and the destiny of this nation. Under such a system, we are convinced; Egypt will reach new heights of greatness.