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Vol.1 Issue 26, December 2020 ELITE

Political Money and Vote Selling:

what is to be done ?
Caroline Sherief, Marc Nabil, Mohamed Fawzi, Mariam Hefny , Adham Nasr eldin and Farah Ezzeldin

During the last period, parliamentary elections were held in goods like oil, sugar or even money , a phenomenon that is
particularly found among the poor and middle class . Other
Egypt. This event was accompanied by various demonstrations.
First, there were the election campaigns, then there was vote sale students have heard of this phenomenon from their families and
friends. For example, one of the students recounted a situation that
business, and finally, the winning voters were announced and
became representatives of the people. It is important to mention happened in front of his cousin who was shopping and he heard a
person shouting : " The voice, against 200 LE ".
that the importance of elections hinges on giving people the right
to engage in the service of public affairs and the transfer of
Thus, we can conclude that almost all the pupils witnessed or heard
power from one representative to another or from a group of
representatives to. another democratically. This is why the “ about this situation directly from their circle of acquaintances. It is
an indication which shows the degree of the propagation of the
Élite "Decided to make a report on the parliamentary elections
through an e survey whose sample was of university students in phenomenon.
Cairo to find out their views on the electoral process and also the
phenomenon of the sale of the votes that s' is repeated several As for their opinion on the process of selling votes, there was a
consensus of their rejection of this phenomenon which leads to
times during the last years. We tried to get the different points of
view of students from different faculties ; Faculty of Economics restricting competition between those who succeeded ssent to
exploit the needs of individuals. In addition, this phenomenon
and Political Science, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Commerce and
Faculty of Communications , Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of eliminates the essential objective of the elections which is the
credibility and the freedom to choose the representatives of the
Pharmacy, and Faculty of Engineering. We also chose our
sample of students of different ages and different genders. people . This also makes us ignore those deserving of whether
GHGs in parliament who have the skills nece ssaires for, really
Complying with health precautions, the interviews were done s
virtually using the video conference applications like zoom. improve the current situation . The presence of such a phenomenon
forces all citizens to suffer from the bad choices of those who sell
At the beginning, we asked the students whether they their votes for goods or money that are not so important.
participated in the elections or not, as every citizen has the right
to participate in the elections if he fulfills the necessary When asked for their opinion around the main causes of the spread
of this phenomenon, they replied that it was due to the presence of
conditions regarding nationality and mental health. M ais the
majority of them said that he did not participate in the elections. ignorance and poverty, and the deteriorating economic conditions
that coincide with it. price increase which made some people
After discussing the reasons for their abstention, we asked them essentially indifferent to the electoral process. In short, a large
proportion of citizens have lost hope that there will be
if there were any voting sales cases that they had seen, or had
representatives who could change their living conditions for the
heard of.There were students who saw sales of votes against
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