The conference aims to review the achievements of Al-Sisi’s rule ahead of the presidential elections. The elections are scheduled to be held from 10 to 12 December, and the results are expected to be announced on 18 December. He said that the new Suez Canal was not meant to serve the economic path, but to restore the people’s self-belief. Al-Sisi said that the challenges that the Egyptian state faced in the past period were enough to make it unable to rise again, adding: “The problem of the state over the past years was that it lost confidence in itself. In fact, it can be said without exaggeration that they have not occurred for centuries in this country.”

Source: Daily News Egypt September 30, 2023 21:42 UTC