Tahrir Activists Trying To Form Political Party
img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-67870" title="egypt-tahrir-square" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-03/egypt-tahrir-square.jpg" alt="" width="205" height="105" /><The New York Times reports:
PORT SAID, Egypt — When a few youthful organizers of the Tahrir Square revolution brought their democracy road show to this graceful Suez Canal port one recent evening, an animated throng rushed the tented stage as the speeches ended.
Some merely wanted to touch the Tahrir icons or take snapshots with them. But many shouted questions in a cacophony that drowned out the chill wind rattling the palm fronds on Port Said’s main square:
¶“Are you worried about Egypt’s future?”
¶“Why are the ruling generals so slow in implementing the people’s demands?”
¶“Are the counterrevolutionaries a threat?”
¶“Are you running for president?”
¶“What about reforming the education system?
¶“What about a political party?”
The organizers could not possibly answer them all, but one of them, Amr Hamzawy, a 43-year-old political science professor, responded to the question about a politicalparty. “We are still searching for a good name for a party and an idea that attracts people’s attention,” he said.
A nucleus of about 15 men and women who helped guide the popular movement that brought down President Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11 find themselves in an unanticipated position. To prevent more established political groups like the Muslim Brotherhood from filling the political vacuum they helped to create, they are trying to establish at least one national political organization in minimal time.
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