Cairo Next week in Egypt begins in Egypt, the first meetings of the consulting committees, which are formed from the private sector to assist the government, in the presence of the relevant ministers.
Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, in his meeting with the members of the six consultative committees that have been formed and met with them, stressed that their role in the committees is “achieving the targets and the government will be its role in helping them in the investigation.”
He added, in a statement on the official page of the Council via Facebook, “Our goal is to form the specialized consulting committees is to open permanent channels of communication with the private sector and benefit from their visions and theses regarding the various economic files.”
Political and economic estimates of the Prime Minister announced the formation of committees, especially as they include a number of prominent names in the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, in conjunction with the anniversary of the revolution against him on these days of 2011.
The decision to form committees included consulting in areas including the total economy, export development, tourism, and urban development, to provide recommendations to the government regarding private sector affairs, according to an official statement.
Among the prominent names in the committees of businessmen and politics during the Mubarak era, the names of: Hisham Talaat Mustafa, Ali al -Din Hilal and Abdel -Moneim Saeed were topped.
Followers believe that the use of Mubarak’s men, but to realize the keys to crisis management by previously their experiences, and some of them were used in dialogue sessions with Madbouly weeks ago, including the Secretary General of the dissolved National Party, businessman Ahmed Ezz, and businessman Hassan Heikal, who was close to the beauty of a son Mubarak in the Policy Committee.
On the other hand, there are questions related to what the decision raises about the feasibility of forming new committees in areas where existing bodies that have sufficient powers and resources work, and is the goal consulting or duplication of roles? Does this lead to conflict of policies, the repetition of efforts, and the waste of resources?
There are previous experiences of the committees formed for the assistance of the government and then enriching without a tangible impact, such as the Coordination National Committee for Corruption Prevention and Control of Corruption, and other committees that were formed to develop education, health, etc., and whose attempts to search for their activities only produce a transient mention of government data at intermittent and distant periods .
Observers believe that the matter is nothing more than a show of a formal response to the requests of the International Monetary Fund for economic reform, which is denied by official statements indicating that “the members of the committees offer all the solutions that can be applied and the government will be implemented and applied,” according to Madbouly statement.
Positive formation
Egyptian economist Hani Aboul Fotouh says that the formation of these committees is positive, as it involves an recognition of the necessity of changing some current policies, especially in light of the use of these experts.
He adds, in a comment to Al -Jazeera Net, that their affiliation with the previous regime should not be an excuse to exclude them, especially since the chosen people have not been proven involved in violations or their condemnation in corruption cases.
He points out that “the previous regime, despite any dispute with it, included personalities with economic experiences that can be referred to to benefit from their experiences,” stressing the consultative nature of these committees, as stated in the description of their duties without the ability to compel the government to convert these recommendations into actual decisions .
Aboul Fotouh does not rule out that the formation of these committees is a response to the demands of the IMF, which has repeatedly stressed the need to give priority to the private sector as the locomotive of development and responsible for providing jobs, and is able to get Egypt out of its economic crisis.
Distinguished elements
For his part, former Ambassador Fawzi Ashmawi believes that the list includes distinguished personalities in its fields and can add a lot if it is listened to and the loyal to its views, adding in a post on Facebook that there are hundreds of other personalities that are no less than these personalities efficient, which means that the homeland means It is not as serious as some people try to photograph, in addition to the issue is not the formation of committees and the choice of personalities but rather the change of policies and priorities; Then the appropriate personalities for new policies and priorities will be chosen, stressing that there is a huge difference between housing and treatment.
Policy crisis
In turn, political analyst and writer Ammar Ali Hassan stressed that this step does not only represent a form of loyalty to the current authority of the Mubarak regime’s approach, but extends to the current regime’s followers the same approach that the previous regime was going.
Speaking to Al -Jazeera Net, Hassan said, “All the change that occurred was limited to replacing some of the beneficiaries or benefiting from the current political authority, without any fundamental change in the policies themselves.”
He added, “Although some of the faces that were linked to the Mubarak regime may be involved in corruption or collusion with tyranny, some of them were efficient in its field, unlike the current authority that surrounded itself with people who lack the capabilities that were available to their counterparts during the Mubarak era.”
Hassan underestimated the importance of forming these committees by saying that “the decision to form these committees was issued by the Prime Minister, which is not an important number in decision -making, although the constitution gives it wide powers, but it does not seem to be adhering to it, …”, according to his expression.
Hassan expressed his pessimism that these committees can succeed in resolving the economic crisis or areas related to it, noting that the economy cannot witness any real reform without conducting political reforms that include freedoms, true representation of the people, separation between powers, and commitment to the constitution and the law.
He continued, “I do not think that these committees, in their current formation, have made a significant difference. Most of their members are near power from the beginning, and they are used to submit reports, and some of them were involved in the national dialogue, which did not provide a newly mentioned new, but there are those who hope to listen to These are in light of their experience, regardless of their association with the old regime. “
He concluded his speech by saying, “It is important for the regime to realize, before the formation of these committees, that the crisis is political before it is economic, and security before it is economic.”
Improving improvement
In the same context, the Egyptian politician Hisham Qasim saw that “most of the decisions taken by the current regime, including the formation of these committees and the use of experiences affiliated with the previous regime, aims only to suggest that the conditions are likely to improve in the near future, which is a major illusion, because the crisis is political in its essence And you need serious procedures and real change in policies, not to form consultative committees that will not make any concrete change. “
Qasim stressed in a comment to Al -Jazeera Net, that “the nature of the current Egyptian regime is emptying the work of these consulting committees from any real content, as the decision -making in Egypt remains confined to the narrow circle surrounding President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi, which will not accept any crowding out of them from personalities outside This framework, and therefore, the work of these committees will be a pictorial. “
He pointed out that the formation of these committees “does not promise that it is an attempt to improve the image of the regime in front of public opinion … the use of personalities affiliated with the Mubarak regime that reflects a shortage of faces prepared to cooperate with the current system that suffers from a state of decline and turmoil.”
