What’s really behind the sudden drop in poultry prices?

What’s really behind the sudden drop in poultry prices? El Watan’s Mahmoud Khalil wonders if the government pushed the discounted poultry into the market during the run-up to this year’s presidential elections as a means to assuage public discontent about the rising cost of living—and whether the drop in prices will therefore be short-lived. The price drop also begs the question of why the state didn’t move to increase its poultry supply (and therefore push down the price) at any point during the past few years, when citizens were consistently complaining about inflation, he writes.