Chairperson of El Ghad Party Moussa Mostafa Moussa in a press conference after running for Presidetial election, on Monday, 29 January 2018- Egypt Today/Hussein TallalCAIRO – 29 January 2018: Chairperson of El Ghad Party Moussa Mostafa Moussa held a press conference after he submitted his candidacy application to the National Election Authority (NEA) on Monday, explaining his last-minute decision to run in the 2018 Presidential election.Moussa claimed that his party is the only entity that conducted field studies to put plans, before announcing its participation in the elections. “People are right to question why we did not announce we were running earlier,” the candidate added.“After the withdrawal of other candidates, we questioned how the situation would be. We are working on behalf of Egypt and not on behalf of anyone else. I fully realize the problems of Egyptians, and we have out-of-the-box solutions that we are going to present as proposed programs,” Moussa stated.He asserted that the party has presence in 26 out of the 27 governorates, with 450 bureaus. He added that developing clear mechanisms to achieve different goals is more important than setting targets to be met in specific deadlines.Moussa’s program is aligned with the social capitalism ideology he seeks to promote among youth, he said.

Source: Egypt Today January 29, 2018 17:26 UTC