Thursday 10/Apr/2025 – 05:34 PM
Ahmed Al -Sawy, the editor -in -chief of the Voice of Al -Azhar newspaper, spokesman for Al -Azhar, denied what some are circulating regarding the intervention of the Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al -Tayeb, Sheikh of Al -Azhar, in the elections of the Syndicate of Journalists, especially after Khaled Al -Balshi, the captain of the journalists, included the Al -Azhar University College Council.
The fact that the Sheikh of Al -Azhar interfered with the Journalists Syndicate elections
He said through his account on the social networking site Facebook: It is not true that the virtue of the Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al -Tayeb, Sheikh of Al -Azhar, interferes in the elections of the Syndicate of Journalists, and besides that this claim is not correct in terms of information, it is also a difficult thing to believe in termsS It is not appropriate to repeat it, especially from journalists who have the ability to access accurate information and objective contexts.
He continued: As for those who considered the announcement of the decision to include the colleague, Mr. Khaled Al -Balshi, to the College of Information Council at Al -Azhar University in intervention from Al -Azhar in the elections, they are making perceptions of illusion, because the constant is that the decision, first, is the product of an institutional work course that started more than six months ago with the nomination of the Dean of the Faculty of Information, and not from the Sheikh of Al -Azhar, and the dean obtained the approval of the College Council, then the University Council, then the Supreme Council of Al -Azhar, and it took several months until the decision was approved until the decision was approved until the decision was approved until the decision was approved And its issuance from the Imam’s His Excellency’s office, according to what is followed .. Here is a copy of the decision to include the media captain to the college council by adopting the Sheikh of Al -Azhar himself, was this an attempt to influence the Media Syndicate?
He continued: The Faculty of Information, while providing its nomination, did not plan that the accreditation of the nomination is aligned with the close date of the Journalists Syndicate elections, which was postponed for its supposed date for about two months, as all journalists know. If the elections were held on time, the announcement of the decision to include the Bashi to the College of Information Council would have come after the elections, not before it.
He continued: The nomination of Al -Balashi to the College Council started six months ago, perhaps before he himself was announced to compete for the election competition for a second period. It is almost the same period in which a decision was issued to appoint colleague Professor Abdel Mohsen Salama as a member of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation. Is it possible to say that whoever nominated and appointed and adopted the colleague as a safety as a member of this distinguished council, he intended to interfere in the elections or support safety in it? Consistent and logical.
He continued: As for the insertion of the name of the Grand Imam – because of a well -known decision – in electoral debates, it is not appropriate for all parties. Because the virtue of the imam respects the Syndicate of Journalists, and respects the choice of its free public association, extending bridges of cooperation with the current captain and council, and all the captains and previous councils. The colleague, Professor Abdel Mohsen Salama, is attested to when he was a captain of journalists in a previous period, as his virtue office was open to receive him on more than one occasion.
And Abizaid: It is not for Al -Azhar, as an institution, that is, an interest – neither from near nor from far – in preoccupation with the elections of the Journalists Syndicate, as well as influencing it. He has never provided, for example, to any candidate at the time of the elections, advantages, incentives, protocols or agreements to promote themselves among the members of the General Assembly, and he says to the journalists: I got to you this, so they elected me, and we, as journalists, know exactly what the meaning of influencing the union elections and how it happens.
He concluded: It is never a influence for Khaled Al -Balashi to tell reporters: I am elected because I am a member of the Faculty of Information at Al -Azhar University. ”Or Abdul Mohsen Salama says: I am elected because I am a member of the Media Regulatory Council, because these are sites related to their personality, and do not concern, do not dazzle or attract members of the General Assembly. The journalists are not that naive.
The Grand Imam, Dr. Ahmed Al -Tayeb, Sheikh of Al -Azhar Al -Sharif, issued a decision to include journalist Khaled Al -Balshi, the captain of the Journalists, to the membership of the College of Information Council at Al -Azhar University for two years.
