I cannot navigate to else part of my selenium code ,always getting failure

Please see my below code:

My if part of code is running successfully but my else part is not working. The code gets skipped and is showing failure.

 if (driver.findElement(By.id("error_explanation")).isDisplayed() == true) {
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).clear();
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_email")).sendKeys("soumya50@toobler.com");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_password")).sendKeys("password");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.id("user_current_password")).sendKeys("password");
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.name("commit")).click();
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
     driver.findElement(By.linkText("LOGOUT")).click();
 } else

 {
     driver.findElement(By.linkText("REQUEST A PERMIT")).click();
     driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 }