30-year-old Abd El Rahim Ali, the president of the party in Józsefváros, signed up to lead the Democratic Coalition, according to whom "the sudden winds of the past period have disturbed the captain and the entire leadership."
The young politician called the DK leadership "weak" .
The renewal of the DK will take place in three stages, the membership will decide on the person of the president in an online vote in January.
I challenged Ferenc Gyurcsány for the presidency of the Democratic Coalition
- this is how 30-year-old Abd El Rahim Ali, the president of the Democratic Coalition in Józsefváros, begins his less than one and a half minute speech in a video uploaded to Facebook.
According to him, he has been a member of the party for 10 years, he has been leading the organization in Józsefváros for two years, and according to him, he managed to achieve that every fifth party member under the age of 35 is the VIII. came from the district. According to him , "the sudden winds of the past period confused the captain and the entire management" .
He continues by saying: "they ran our ship aground and they are completely at a loss" . the DK management "weak" , and the central communication team "being taught by unpaid amateurs" . According to him, they have completely distanced themselves from their voting base and "play politics as a stereotype" . At the end of the video, he continues by saying that a "comfortable, online-focused party" and that "a real, proper left" is needed, according to him.
"We have to face the past. You can go with Feri to build in Minecraft, you can come to resurrect the left.”
- the newest presidential aspirant of the DK concludes his speech. (With the latter, he was referring to the fact that Ferenc Gyurcsány recently started to launch a Minecraft server, for which he recruited players through TikTok videos. Minecraft is a video game platform and also the best-selling game of all time, 300 million copies were sold by October last year, with 126 million active players on a monthly basis has worldwide.)
The DK politician with Egyptian ancestry - whose father came to Hungary in the late 1980s - currently works as the head of the Józsefváros Public Safety Public Foundation and is an external member of the municipality's Finance and Ownership Committee
- writes the Mandiner . Abd El Rahim Ali was a listed candidate in the local government election, but did not make it to the board.
The party responded to the VIII. for 24.hu. to the words of the district president, they explained: several people applied for all national party positions, the party president will be elected first in January 2025, then on February 2nd at the DK Congress, the party's vice presidents, members of the presidency, and other officials will be decided. Added:
the fact that someone applies or applies does not automatically make him a candidate, as this is decided by the nomination committee.
The committee then solicits the opinions of local organizations and the membership on the applicants, and then those who have obtained sufficient support are submitted to the Congress for a vote.
Featured image: Abd El Rahim Ali/Facebook