A snap shot of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi speaking to senior guests during breakfast at the Police Academy’s graduation ceremony. Courtesy of Egyptian Presidency.
El-Sisi noted that the Military Academy would play a crucial role in the reformation process.
Speaking to senior guests during breakfast at the Police Academy’s graduation ceremony, the Egyptian president emphasised that state institutions, including education, health, and media, need to undergo comprehensive reforms.
He explained that Egypt’s leadership has developed a carefully planned strategy to rebuild state institutions on solid foundations of knowledge, discipline, and fairness.
“Institutions issue from the core of the state, and the degree of progress and civilisation a state achieves reflects directly on those institutions,” El-Sisi said.
He noted that a state must continually develop and that citizens should clearly understand the connection between national advancement and institutional performance.
The Egyptian president stated that his goal is to establish a unified national vision for reform, emphasising that he has never sought to promote political partisanship or pursue a personal party agenda.
“My role is to be responsible for all Egyptians,” he said, adding that since taking office, his priority has been to restore stability and repair the consequences of the turmoil that followed the 2011 revolution.
The president revealed that a long-term project is underway to reshape state institutions based on strict criteria for recruitment, selection, and training.
He emphasised that introducing new generations into state institutions must be preceded by a period of preparation, training, and fair selection to ensure competence.
He described the process as an effort to establish fairness and equal opportunity in public employment, ensuring that all recruits are chosen based on merit rather than favouritism.
El-Sisi contrasted reform with revolution, arguing that revolutions may set countries back decades, whereas reform builds for the future. “Revolutions can push nations 50 or 100 years backward,” he said.
He called on all Egyptians, especially academics and university leaders, to take part in shaping a new generation of capable citizens.
“If every dean and university president dedicates themselves to preparing a capable generation, we will shorten the time it takes to achieve real progress,” he said.
Concluding his remarks, El-Sisi emphasised three key principles for Egypt’s path forward: protecting genuine freedom without allowing chaos that could jeopardise the country’s stability, ensuring continuous development beyond any single generation, leader, government, or era, and safeguarding national unity so that no one can ever use the people to harm their country again.
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