MB’s Candidate Vows To Share Power

Egyptian presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi has promised to share power with other parties and to uphold the goals of revolution if he becomes president.

The Muslim Brotherhood candidate made the remarks on Wednesday as presidential campaign heats up in the country. 

Morsi said Egypt will be inclusive under his leadership. He pledged to end discrimination against any Egyptian based on religion, ethnicity or gender. 

The candidate will face Hosni Mubarak’s ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq in a presidential run-off vote on June 16 and 17 in the first freely-contested presidential election in the country’s history. 

He says he is confident in winning the landmark poll and believes Egyptians will not vote for a symbol of the old regime. 

Reports also show that former Muslim Brotherhood member, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, one of the presidential candidates in the first round of elections, has endorsed Morsi. 

Last week, thousands of Egyptian protesters held rallies in the capital Cairo against Shafiq, demanding that the Mubarak era remnant be barred from running for the run-off presidential election, according to Press TV.