Analysis: How CPYP enriches Egypt's political life?

Egypt's Coordination of Parties’ Youth and Politicians (CPYP) is an inspiring experience that should be studied after its success in presenting a powerful and successful model in Egyptian political life. 

The CPYP succeeded in a short period to have a significant influence in the political scene, following seizing a number of seats in the Senate elections held in 2020. Hence, it ran in the following parliamentary elections and won 28 seats in the House of Representatives via the National List for Egypt.

The Coordination of Parties’ Youth and Politicians has become an important window for young people to participate in political life and to be present in Parliament. Although it includes nearly 27 political parties, it has provided a successful model in creating harmony and consensus among its members who are united by the love of their homeland and their desire to serve it. 

The CPYP’s participation in the elections of the House of Representatives and the Senate supports the experience of political empowerment of the youth. 

It was founded in April 2018, and succeeded to gain the confidence of the Egyptian people, especially as it includes young people from different sects and orientations. 

The CPYP also represents the enrichment of political life at the youth level, as it includes about 27 parties, including: The Future of A Nation, Reform and Development, the Conference, Free Egyptians, Al-Tagamou, the Generation, the Egyptian National Movement, Freedom, Al-Ghad, the Egyptian Democrat, and the Protectors of the Nation.

Window of Hope

The CPYP opens the door for young people to practice political work as a candidate and follow-up in the parliamentary and municipal elections, and to participate in societal dialogues, in a way that contributes to the emergence of leading figures with skill and political weight and knowledge of the nature of Egyptian problems and issues and ways to deal with them.

After the success of the youth experience of the CPYP in winning seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate, it gives an impetus to the youth to participate in the future in the electoral entitlements. Thus, It gives hope for youth to enter parliaments and local councils, so that the Coordination is a window for the entry of new youth groups and the creation of leading cadres and political youth.

We do not forget the increase in the percentage of women’s representation in parliament by more than 25 percent, which is considered one of the most important political gains of this parliament in addition to the appropriate representation of Copts and people with disabilities as well as Egyptians abroad and other groups. 

This analysis indicates that we are facing a political persity that represents all ideologies and sects and has a great role.

There is no doubt that the Egyptian state, with its various institutions and agencies, faces internal and external challenges, and the Egyptian parliament, with its two chambers, will be an essential partner in facing these challenges and working on confronting them, and even developing general strategies and frameworks to solve them, including the intellectual, cultural and elite persity.

The real challenge facing Egyptian parties today is to restore respect and appreciation for the party work as a whole after it lost much of its credibility. The political parties must have real and serious work on the ground in which the masses join together to achieve what they believe.