Democracy is a long path on which Egypt has been always forerunner to new illuminations in the field of developing the society and attaining the democratic course. It seeks benefiting from other countries' experiences to enrich its knowledge. Here are some of these lessons that might be useful.
The First Lesson: shifting from I to We. During the Gulf Crisis in early 1990s, Neil Kinnock, the Leader of Labor Party- the Opposition Party- stood in the English Parliament and called all other parties, including the Conservative- the Ruling Party- to gather together against the coming dangers. He advised them to put aside any internal unuseful differences. The last parliamentary elections have mobilized the Egyptian arena socially and politically refreshing minds and hearts and pushing them into a new enlightened phase. At this point, I do not desire to analyze what happened, but I would like to focus on what we need now; namely having factional trends under the parliamentary dome undivided and tolerant towards each other. They should work on we- basis as being all Egyptians, because we need to collect innovative efforts for a brighter future. The Second Lesson: interacting with the human being. The British Parliament discusses the internal issues seriously such as unemployment, health, education, taxes, etc. and puts systematic solutions for them according to a certain time- table. However, it does not neglect the global events happening around the world without contemplating their details and participating in them. Moreover, it does not leave out the cultural and political changes and transformations happened in the third millennium and required that we- the new parliament- give more space for new visions in order not to seclude ourselves and say we are not going to deal with the other. On the contrary, we live today in one room, in which every one of us has to understand the other, creating points of demarcation with the international world without any detriment to our identity. The Third Lesson: the accuracy of studying laws. Education is the perfect way to development in any society; hence discussions and actions related to the law of English Schools National Curriculum development have started in the Parliament before 1988. Such a step aimed at implementing these plans actually and practically in 1992. From all this we can understand that there has been an accurate study to comprehend the law and its levels of application. This operation took more than 4 years due to the nature of the subject and its effect on the society. However, this does not mean that it will take similar period to effectuate it, but every legal case has its own privacy. The new Parliament has lots of laws in the economic and social fields that need to be studied. Hence, attentive studying- that is not exaggerated- is a necessity for any society. The Forth Lesson: we are all soldiers for our own country. In one of the Conservative Party Presidential elections between John Major and Michael Heseltine, John Major gets the majority of the voices. However, Michael Heseltine welcomed John and wished him good luck. Moreover, he worked in the position the party determined for him. Even when John Major lost in the next elections for Tony Blair, he wished the Ministry of Labor Party success for the sake of Britain. John Major worked in another place to write his autobiography and give lectures to the next generations. In the light of this, winning in the parliament or not, being into a party or not, is not the point; we are all soldiers in this country, loving it and working so hard for developing it; it is our dear beloved; Egypt.
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