ElBaradei Calls For Boycotting Elections

Mohamed El Baradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Chairman of AlDostour Party (Constitution Party), a senior figure in the NSF, has voiced his objection to the elections, which President Morsi announced late on Thursday; referring that boycotting the election is best solution.

On his “Twitter” account, Saturday morning, ElBaradei wrote:”Called for parliamentary election boycott in 2010 to expose sham democracy. Today I repeat my call, will not be part of an act of deception”.

It is worth noting that Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s Islamist president has called parliamentary elections to start on April 27 and to be held over four stages, culminating in late June.

Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood group are hoping the poll will help restore stability and arrest economic deterioration in a turbulent country rocked by protests and periodic violence.

Members of Egypt’s minority Christian community noted that the timing of the vote was insensitive because the first stage of the election falls on Palm Sunday according to the Coptic calendar and the run off on Easter day.

Despite the electoral weakness of the opposition, most of which became organized into parties only after the 2011 revolution, Egypt remains a deeply divided country with mounting resentment against the rule of Morsi and his secretive Islamist group.