Some politicians see that the January revolution has succeeded insofar as it has toppled the head of the regime, but it has failed to achieve other goals.
Ali Amin of the Wafd Party in Suez said the revolution toppled Mubarak but did not achieve freedom and social justice, nor did it eliminate corruption.
Nasr al-Zahra of the Wafd Party in Port Said said the revolution failed to achieve concrete results. “The officials of the Mubarak regime have returned to the political arena to threaten us that they will take back their economic gains,” he said.
He said the international conspiracies hatched against Egypt, and the threats by radical religious currents made people prefer that the state protects them and averted the revolutionary mood.
Nabil al-Hefnawy of the People's Current in Damietta said the revolution will go on as long as it remains threatened by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sayed Abu Taleb of the Nasserist Party in Suez believes that the revolution has succeeded because it toppled a dictator that stayed 30 years. “And the Egyptian people, together with the armed forces and the police, will thwart any attempts to destroy the country,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
