Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi concluded his first 100 days with a public speech in the Cairo Stadium which was full of his supporters. Early in his Presidential campaign, the Egyptian President set himself a timeline of 100 days after he takes his office, during which he will solve 64 problems suffered by the Egyptian people.
During his speech, Morsi said his government have succeeded in achieving a remarkable success in many of the issues he promised to find solutions to.
However, Egypt's newspapers came with mixed views over the assessment of the first 100 days of President Mohamed Morsi’s tenure.
The Egyptian newspaper al-Moujaz came in Sunday with the frontline: "100 days where Egypt was without a president, you ruined it Morsi."
In the details, the paper said Morsi in his first 100 days added $18 million more to Egypt's foreign debt, and honoured the murderers of former president Anwar Sadat, while he failed to achieve any of his promises.
Another newspaper, al-Youm al-Sabei, said the Egyptian people were waiting for effective solutions for five major problems affecting their daily life: fuel shortage, overcrowded traffic, low quality bread, lack of security and the dirty streets. However, the daily protest against these issues, in particular after 100 days since Morsi took his office, is not a good sign for the Islamist president.
The state-run newspaper, al-Ahram said that the Egyptian people liked the honesty of Morsi in his speech, as he spoke about the country's problems openly. Many on the other hand accused him of committing to the same policies of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak, saying that the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Morsi belongs, are trying to replicate Mubarak's hegemony.
Some of Egypt's youth activists have launched an internet website called "Morsi Metre" to observe Morsi's ability to meet the promises he committed himself to in his first 100 days as a President. Shockingly for Morsi's supporters, the website said the president succeeded to achieve a relative success in only five issues out of the 64 he mentioned in his campaign.
Another group of activists forming the so-called the President's watchdog made a public poll about the president's performance, which showed that only 42 percent of the Egyptians are satisfied with the Morsi's early work, against 58 who were not impressed.
Arabstoday asked Egyptians on the early impression they have about the President's performance. We got mixed views as some went to say they were completely dissatisfied with Morsi's work, whilst others said they are touching signs of success made by the Egyptian government in many things since Morsi took his office. A third group, however, said they believe Morsi and his government have done their best, but the President found the general conditions much worse than he first thought, and that is why he failed in making the citizens feel a change.
"He can do nothing in 100 days, he needs five years at least," said 25 year old, Mohammed Tantawi.
Ahmed Nassar, 34, said Morsi holds a very tough mission as he finds no help from all of Egypt's political fronts who want him to fail.
Radwa Hussein, 23 said she believes Morsi is talking too much to make an emotional influence on the poor people, while in land he failed to achieve any improvement in the people's daily life, which has actually become worse, said Radwa.