By Nourhan Fahmy, Aswat Masriya The Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education published a six-point statement Saturday regarding the recent controversy surrounding Egypt’s newly elected country-wide student union. The ministry stressed in its statement that the committee entrusted with supervising the elections is an independent body, unaffiliated with the ministry. The report issued by the committee on Thursday had nullified the candidature and election of Zagazig University student Ahmed Attia for the post of Vice-President of the Zagazig Student Union. This entails the reopening of candidacy for the aforementioned post, and the nullification of Attia’s vote in Egypt’s country-wide student union elections on the posts of president and vice-president, according to the statement. The nullification of Attia’s vote meant there will be a re-election for the posts of president and vice-president. The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) clarified in a statement Friday that the decision for re-election does not mean that the whole student union would be dissolved. It only leads to the cancellation of Abdallah Nour’s and Amru El-Helw’s election results. The two independent students were previously announced as having won the seats of president and vice…
Egypt’s Student Union Controversy Widens Over Disqualification of Member
December 26, 2015
