A leaked video obtained by Al Manassa confirms that Egypt’s ruling-aligned party, Nation’s Future Party, is actively coordinating electoral outcomes in Giza’s Badrasheen constituency by redirecting support to rival pro-government factions.
In the footage, verified by Al Manassa through geolocation and visual forensics, the party’s local secretary, Shaaban Heikal, is seen instructing party members to vote for candidates from the National Front and Homeland’s Defenders Party, rather than his own party’s candidate.
“The political leadership wants it this way. The country wants it this way. Things aren’t like they used to be,” Heikal says in the video. “We’re now ordered to carry the alliance—Nation’s Future Party must lift the National Front and Homeland’s Defenders Party. That’s what the leadership demands,” he declares.
The meeting, held behind closed doors at Nation’s Future Party's Badrasheen headquarters, was identified through fixed visual markers. A distinctive iron gate, interior architecture, and party signage—all matched to public images on the party’s official Facebook page.
Facial recognition and clothing analysis confirmed the speaker’s identity as Shaaban Heikal, who holds the post of constituency party secretary.
The leak surfaces just days before runoff elections in Badrasheen, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, after the Higher Administrative Court nullified results in 30 parliamentary constituencies due to widespread irregularities.
Sixteen candidates are competing in the constituency. These include Nader El-Khobairy of the Nation's Future Party, Mohamed Rashad Hamza of Homeland’s Defenders Party, Sherif Anany of the National Front, and Ayman Awyan and Khaled Shaaban of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, in addition to 11 independent candidates.
During the same meeting, Heikal justified the vote-shifting strategy by invoking the party’s long-term loyalty to the regime. He openly dismissed the idea of supporting unaffiliated candidates.
“Should I now sell out to an independent?” he said. “Give him a spot on the local council? Let him collect the rewards after we did all the work? From the 2018 presidential race through 2024 and now 2025, we’ve been on the ground.”
The Nation's Future Party has long faced allegations of electoral fraud, including vote-buying, voter coercion, and manipulating polling procedures. Observers and independent outlets have reported persistent irregularities throughout the current electoral cycle.
Repeated efforts by Al Manassa to contact Shaaban Heikal for comment were unsuccessful at the time of publication.
The first and second phases of Egypt’s parliamentary elections have been marred by systemic violations. These included pro-government propaganda near polling stations, denial of access to vote count records for candidates, and discrepancies between subcommittee tallies and central tabulations.
Even President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was forced to respond, instructing the National Elections Authority to investigate. The NEA annulled results in 19 constituncies, followed by a sweeping high court order canceling results in 30.
