Officially the Egyptian Presidential Elections race has kicked off today and man what a season premiere it is !!

Lots of things have been happening on many levels that I wanted to comment on my blog here but unfortunately my health did not give me an opportunity. 

I have been sick the past week fighting terrible influenza like hell and up till now I has not fully recovered but here I am , how can I miss that crazy Presidential Elections race.

We were all wrong that we assume it is going to be a dull one-candidate show as us and the whole world thought and are still thinking but things changed rapidly in the past three days.

In non-surprising 100%-expected news , Current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi declared Friday evening that he was running for the office after three-days-event/conference presenting his achievements to the Egyptian people in those four years.

I do not know how many people actually followed that event named “Nation’s tale” but there were strange and interesting claims and numbers that need to be checked for real.

Interestingly, he said in the last day of that event that “he won’t allow the corrupted ones to run for the office” , I do not know whom he meant but it is not up to Abdel Fattah El-Sisi or the Egyptian President in the first place to allow or not allow people to run for the Presidential candidates.

It is up to the National Elections assembly to allow or not allow presidential hopefuls to run according to the constitution and Presidential elections law’s candidacy requirements.

Needless to say ,  we do not know whom he meant exactly.

Did he mean former PM Ahmed Shafik or former chief of staff Sami Anan ? I am sure that he did not mean Khaled Ali.

Anyhow hours later following El-Sisi’ announcement on Friday , at 1.05 AM Cairo Local time Saturday the Sami Anan Presidential Campaign released a video for the former 2011 SCAF leading figure declaring his candidacy in a very powerful speech that I could have ever thought that I would hear it for him.

“P.s: I can’t summarize it now coz I feel sleepy, hours later and I will update this post”

Last week , little-known Egypt Arabism party which he founded in 2014 quietly declared that he intended to run for the office and since then we had news reports confirming and denying his candidacy.

A journalist working in Rose Al-Youssef Magazine claimed on Twitter that Sami Anan’s campaign sent that video to TV stations and they refused to air it at 10 PM. “Just like what happened with Ahmed Shafik if you remember”

This is all happening in less than 15 days following the sudden and surprising dismissal of Khaled Fawzy , the director of the Egyptian General Intelligence “GIS” , which Egyptians knew from Lebanese Al-Akhbar and Kuwaiti Al-Gardia first with no confirmation from Cairo.

The confirmation came officially in another surprising presidential decree issued in the State’s official gazette appointing El-Sisi’s chief of staff at the Presidency General Abbas Kamel as the acting Spy chief.

No official information was giving why Fawzy was dismissed in that way.

Yet close-to-regime writer and MP Mostafa Bakry claimed on twitter that Fawzy was relieved from his position because he was so ill and that he was going to travel abroad to receive treatment for his alleged illness.

Crazy times indeed.