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opportunity to balance the relationship between the
government and the military council during the second
period in the ministry than the first period for many
reasons, one of them was that the grip of the military
council was less so the government began to perform its
role in the shade of a degree of calm and stability and we
began to implement the stages of political transition ,
explaining that his opinion about the arrangement of doing
the parliamentary elections then presidential elections
and then write the Constitution was wrong and like putting
the cart before the horse, because the Constitution is what
sets thing right, that’s why it must be written first and
then comes the elections. But with the military council
confronting the issue of the transitional phase and
insisting on this arrangement, I submitted my first
resignation from the ministry. Then we saw the
Brotherhood's control over the parliament, then the
presidency and the formation of the Committee of fifty and
writing the Constitution.
As a socialist thinker, he assess the current economic
My upcoming book narrates my reform program to which the largest capital institution of
the Bretton Woods system and the International Monetary
ministerial days Fund contributed as he said that they have presented a
new conception of an alternative program to the program
agreed with the IMF as an institution, not an individual,
but The problem with the agreement with the IMF was that
And this during the period of revolutionary
momentum, where everybody freely expressed their the government did not strive to defend the interests of the
opinion, and with the accurate discretion of the Egyptians and recognized that experience, wisdom and
people, they were able to conclude that I was working knowledge are all in the hands of the IMF experts. But the
for them, and they understood that there were limits fatal decision of floating the Egyptian pound in November
for pressure. Also, there were strengths represented 2017 was an example to this, and as a Professional
in the descent of young people to Tahrir Square and economist I know that the national currency is the basis of
commander Ibrahim and the forty in Suez and others, the economy and should not be left to go into thin air -
which helped in pressuring the supply system, so they especially if the state’s economy is small -, And we saw the
said send the bread to a certain place and the youth result of this decision represented in the raise of the dollar
will ensure its distribution fairly, so the political price to 20 pounds after it was only 8/9 pounds before
atmosphere and the pulse of the street were returning to 16 pounds, this caused the social and economic
important during the initial period. conditions to be shaken. Thus, the confusion of the budget
And speaking of the second period in the Ministry of of Egyptian families, the state and the various institutions
Supply, he added that his biggest ambition at that as a result of the virtue of strengthening the relationship
time was to prevent a major famine in Upper Egypt between the inside and outside. But that effect can be
which really happened -that is also what I recorded in overlooked.
a book that will be published by Al Shorouk He continued explaining that his second objection is that
bookstore, titled “ With the Poor”, which includes my interest in real estate is not a reform because reform
experience in the ministry- therefore, there was no means changing the situation into a better direction, as
opportunity to look into reform issues until December Egyptians will not eat real estate, but bread. Therefore, the
2011.That’s when we started looking at the issues of state budget was exhausted due to the concern about only
reform and the implementation of justice and one item in it, which was reflected on people in the form of
sufficiency, so we put basis for the bread subsidy inflation, which is politically considered as a tax with no
system, but unfortunately it was not built on this value causing the redistribution of income and wealth for
basis, which caused a great waste of resources due to the benefit of rich Egyptians and foreigners. That’s why he
the submission of the people in charge to pressure do not call this a reform, and for this we must firstly
strongly. However, there was a greater tighten the relationship between the inside and outside
and defend the value of the Egyptian pound through
agriculture and industry , as real estate comes at the
second or third place compared to them.

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