{"id":727,"date":"2012-05-24T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/enas\/?p=727"},"modified":"2012-05-24T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T20:25:02","slug":"will-women-lead-egypt-to-the-1990s-or-the-2012-of-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecwronline.org\/?p=727&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Will Women lead Egypt to the 1990s or the 2012 of Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also on the second day the Egyptian Center for Women\u2019s Rights continues to watch closely the\u00a0first presidential elections from a gender perspective. Women are in the forefront of the electoral\u00a0scene, as women seem to be patient and persistent despite the hot summer weather. They insist\u00a0on making the best out of their vote. With insisting on voting and mobilization, will women\u2019s\u00a0votes lead us to the Algerian model of the 1990s where women\u2019s votes were affected by the\u00a0religious slogans and their needs and poverty were used or will it lead us to a real democracy and\u00a0ending up with a modern pioneer state and a role model. Women suffer from severe poverty and\u00a0illiteracy and political forces handle women\u2019s issues with low interest. This made women\u00a0vulnerable and easy to instruct and project their votes towards religious or emotional voting,\u00a0which lead to two decades of massacres in Algeria until the political forces realized that\u00a0women\u2019s participation is vital during democratic transition. In addition, women\u2019s voting bloc is\u00a0worth more efforts; therefore, women\u2019s representation in the Parliament in Algeria 2012 reached\u00a030 % which made it occupy the first rank in the Arab region and the 22nd in the world in terms\u00a0of women\u2019s representation.<br \/>\nAnd this is how the second day of the presidential elections went so far; relatively quiet in some\u00a0polling stations and a bit overcrowded in others because of waiting in the long queues in\u00a0different governorate. It should be noted that women\u2019s participation exceeded men\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Following Violations were observed:<br \/>\nMobilizing Voters (male-female):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pattern of mobilizing voters is present for the second day of elections in the following governorates;<\/li>\n<li>In El Giza governorate; in front of Youssef El Sebaay School, Candidate Dr. Mohamed Morsy\u2019s supporters were mobilizing old illiterate women and gave them promotion materials to vote for him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Influencing Voters\u2019 Will (male-female):<\/strong><br \/>\nContinuous political campaigning under the umbrella of providing voters with their prospective voter information in so many governorates;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Rood El Farag distrcit-Cairo, voters\u2019 will was influenced by Candidate Dr. Mohamed Morsy\u2019s supporters through providing voters with information in front of the polling center in Rood El Farag Secondary school for girls.<\/li>\n<li>In El Soofy Primary school in El Fayoum governorate (polling stations number 20, 21 and 22) candidate Dr. Mohamed Morsy\u2019s supporters instructed voters to vote for him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Logistical and Administrative Mistakes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In El Gharbiya governorate- Tanta, late opening in a polling station in the Ali Mubarak school because of the judge\u2019s late arrival and was replaced with another judge to proceed with the electoral process. The same scenario happened in el Imam El Shafaay school in Tanta; polling station number 8, as the polling station was opened at 9:00 am which led to over crowdedness among the voters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> Mass Voting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Cairo governorate- Rood El Farag district, in polling station number 50 in Rood El Farag secondary school for girls, it was observed that there was women\u2019s mass voting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Legal Violations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In El Tabiba village-Zagazig Center, the female head of a polling station number 19 \u201cSahar AbduAllah\u201d reported to the police station a violation from a Freedom and Justice Party agent as he verbally attacked her.<\/li>\n<li>In Cairo governorate-El Maadi secondary school for girls, an observer noticed that the head judge of polling station number 14-was filling out ballots in favor of the Candidate Shaqfiq. Therefore, she filed a case of the incident.<\/li>\n<li>In El Giza governorate- El Agouza secondary school for girls-polling station number 22, the judge who was responsible for the polling station filed a case because one of the female voters refused to put her finger in the ink and a dispute took place where the female voter insulted the female judge. When the judge insisted on following the procedure and asked the voter to put her finger in the ink, so she dipped her finger in the ink angrily; therefore, the ink was spoiled on the judge\u2019s documents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also on the second day the Egyptian Center for Women\u2019s Rights continues to watch closely the\u00a0first presidential elections from a gender perspective. Women are in the forefront of the electoral\u00a0scene, as women seem to be patient and persistent despite the hot summer weather. They insist\u00a0on making the best out of their vote. 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