“I want a president who is not a thief who robs the Egyptian people of their money. I want a president who doesn’t lie and say there is bird flu and let his mafia come and take our poultry and sell it to one another, like Mubarak did. I want the new president to insure that Egypt’s stolen money is returned back to the people. I want the new president to get rid of all the remnants of the Mubarak regime so that we can start a new and fresh life without corruption. But it is important that the new president has experience and won’t experiment on us. There is no time for that. We also want a president who is worthy of presenting a nation like Egypt. We can’t have a president wearing a galabeya. I can wear the galabeya because I am a seller, but the president should look presentable. Can the head of the armed forces be wearing a galabeya? No, of course not. The whole world will laugh at us. We want a strong leader who has dignity and who will be able to lead us forward. We also want someone who will respect women’s rights, because Eastern women are already repressed and do not need someone to put more pressure on them.
Sayed Tawfik has a business selling poultry.