Mubarak opposition figures come to fore in Sisi campaign
* Contemptible, disgusting, just two words that come to mind describing this fiasco.
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 17:25
By:
Mada Masr
Faces have begun to emerge as likely pillars in former Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s newly declared presidential campaign. Chief among them are those who sided with Sisi and the military in its fight against the Muslim Brotherhood that began last summer.
The state-owned news site Al-Ahram cited anonymous sources as saying that columnist and political scientist Amr al-Shobaky, leader of the anti-Brotherhood signature campaign Tamarod (Rebel) Mahmoud Badr and filmmaker Khaled Youssef were the main figures in Sisi’s campaign.
Other names include former Egyptian ambassador to Japan and the European Union Mahmoud Karem, current Youth Minister Khaled Abdel Aziz, media scholar Yasser Abdel Aziz and media and former opposition figure Abdel Gelil Mostafa.
Most of these men had supported the January 25 revolution, later siding with the military during the June 30, 2013 protests against former President Mohamed Morsi.
Shobaky is a regular columnist for the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, where he focuses on questions of democracy. He was also affiliated with the state-run Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and heads the Arab Forum for Alternatives, an independent research center. He was briefly elected MP in the 2012 parliamentary elections, winning a difficult contest against the Muslim Brotherhood, and was one of the figures appointed to the 50-member committee that drafted the 2014 Constitution following Morsi’s ouster.
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