The first issue of Al-Ghad Newspaper announced the party’s decision that its leader would enter the first presidential elections in Egyptian history. However, at that time the party leader was in custody. The newspaper published the message of the party leader, who was behind the iron bars of Mubarak and announced that he would enter the first presidential elections after the amendment of Article 76 of the constitution.
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Who competed with Mubarak? Who supported him?
On September 7, the first presidential race in Egyptian history started. It was the second anniversary of the Al-Ghad Party, which was the symbol of the Egyptians’ hope for change, and it became the focus of the world. Although there were eight other candidates, the -40year-old young candidate of the Al-Ghad Party competed against the -77year-old Mubarak. However, the real rivalry was between the regime and Al-Ghad. The Wafd candidate on the other hand, withdrew from his candidacy to support Mubarak and began to attack the candidate of Al-Ghad, who went back and forth between courts and congresses, knocked on the doors of the Egyptians and won their hearts with honesty. In the 2005 elections, Al-Ghad’s slogan of «hope and change» became reality, and the hope of the youth was identified with the name Al-Ghad. In this way he managed to gain the trust of the Egyptians despite the manipulations in the elections that Al-Ghad completed in the second place after Mubarak, his party and his state.
