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Democratic Practices of Political Parties (Code of Conduct), Cairo |
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Sunday, 31 May 2009 00:00 |
 (Press release - Of ponds and fish) Your pond need not be small for the big fish to make life miserable for smaller ones. The ruling party will be so big and powerful that the regime does not have to pose as an ill-famed one-party system. The ruling party will hold periodically scheduled elections, for example, it may even allow for establishing other necessarily smaller political parties under such conditions that you really do not have to rig the elections. Why take the trouble if the membership of the key administrative agency through which new political parties may be licensed is predominantly affiliated to the ruling party. In Egypt, it is aptly called the Parties Committee. The name is neutral, but this Committee holds wide discretionary powers, though not unlawful ones, for it came into being in compliance with the Law no.40 of 1977. Unsurprisingly smaller and less powerful political parties describe it as the committee that serves not for establishing new political parties but for preventing such from seeing the light.
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Coded Behavior Conduct Rules for Arab Workers’ Associations |
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This paper contains a set of behavioral rules that are supposed to guarantee the exercise of a free, democratic and effective practices of workers’ associations. We have opted to give this set of rules the name “coded behavior” rather than a “code of conduct” to highlight the following two issues: - To highlight the fact that the concept of this paper is different than the concept usually adopted in economic/business institutions in general and in multinational enterprises in particular.
- To highlight that this paper contains behavioral rules tested for their effectiveness in the practices of workers’ associations all over the world; these rules are listed in this paper as such and not only as ideal standards to be followed. |
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