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Egypt opposition leader calls for election boycott
>From Saad Abedine, CNN
February 23, 2013 -- Updated 1239 GMT (2039 HKT)
CNN.com
Egyptian opposition leader and Nobel Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei at a
press conference in Cairo on January 28, 2013.
Egyptian opposition leader and Nobel Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei at a
press conference in Cairo on January 28, 2013.
(CNN) -- A top Egyptian opposition leader Saturday urged a boycott of
parliamentary elections in April, describing them as "an act of deception."
Mohamed ElBaradei is one of the leaders of Egypt's National Salvation Front, a
coalition of various opposition groups.
In a tweet from his official account, he called for the boycott, just like he
did three years ago.
"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 read.
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Egypt will hold parliamentary elections in several stages beginning April 27,
President Mohamed Morsy's presidential team announced Thursday on state TV.
These will be the first elections since Egypt's highest court dissolved the
lower house of parliament in June, and it will be the first full parliament in
Morsy's presidency. The upper house, the Shura Council, has continued to meet.
The election process will take place in four stages: April 27-28, May 15-16 and
June 2-3 and 19-20, according to the official decree released by the
president's spokesman, Yassir Ali.
Runoffs will be held one week after each stage.
The House of Representatives, the lower house in Egypt's bicameral system, will
hold its first session July 6, the decree said.
The first stage of the parliamentary elections will include the five
governorates of Cairo, Beheira, Minya, Port Said and North Sinai.
In the past year, violent clashes in Port Said, a coastal province along the
Suez Canal, have highlighted the longstanding resentment residents there feel
toward Cairo.
Previous elections have been held in three stages, rather than four.
On Friday, ElBaradei tweeted: Morsy's "decision to go for parliamentary
elections amidst severe societal polarization & eroding state authority is a
recipe for disaster."
ElBaradei headed the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear
watchdog, from 1997 to 2009. He also ran unsuccessfully in Egypt's presidential
election last year.
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