An adventure inside the al-Hagana estate

by Hazem Hassan (Egypt)

Making a local connection Egypt

This is Al-Hagana estate, where the elections to the House of Representatives have a different status as the neighborhoods of Nasr City, which is administratively followed, and there is not a single electoral commission in the estate, according to a number of residents. The highest quarter-transport vehicle, the means of movement from the "parking space" to the 750-acre area, was the beginning, which came with a question about the nearest electoral commission, to be told by a fruit vendor that it is near the "Kardasa area of Al-Hagana estate", which requires access to one of these vehicles. By asking the driver of the vehicle about the committee he referred to earlier, he said that "microbuss nearby transport those who wanted to vote to their committees, in the eighth district," continuing: "There are no electoral commissions here." Inside a spacious garage, three microbuses were waiting for candidates to transport voters free of charge, according to the driver of the vehicle. there, a number of men were sitting around a table, and one of them asked me about my identity which I told him, before asking him to take one of these cars to the nearest committee, to answer hello, before asking one of the drivers to get us on his way. Minutes after the carriage, with the area's dialogues, unpaved, they stopped to be taken away by two young men, calling in the residents of the area if they wanted to vote in the elections, and the question was to one of the residents smiling "What's the price?" answered by one of the two young men "Kilo meat and blanket", which was not a offer enough to convince him to take the car to vote. "Are you going to vote, old lady?" a new question posed by one of the two young men, to be answered by the 60-year-old lady, that she is waiting for "Mr. Abdul Wahab, who agreed with us on the price for the election". A third call repeated by one of the two young men to a 50-year-old man, "Will you not go to vote in private work," he said, referring to him as a refusing.