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Egypt: Mohamed El Baradei Calls for Election Boycott

By on December 10, 2010
The Egyptian Mohamed El Baradei has called, in a video message posted on his Facebook website to boycott the 2011 presidential election, and qualified the recent legislative election process as “a farce”.

The opposition must adopt the same position and should frankly announce that it will boycott any presidential election until the Constitution is amended. The regime and the opposition must understand “that we have the right to peacefully protest to demand change for democracy. If we are required, we will use peaceful civil disobedience, he added. Mr. El Baradei is back to Cairo since he left in September, and was virtually silent during the election campaign. The former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had already tried in early September, to federate all the opposition and boycott the legislative elections, without success. However, the Muslim Brotherhood, the first opposition force of the country and the liberal Wafd party, the main secular opposition have withdrawn from the race between the two rounds, after denouncing violence and fraud during the first phase. President Hosni Mubarak, 82 years old, has not yet indicated whether he would run for the presidency chair on next year, even if his entourage is assuring that he will run for another term. His son, Gamal, is frequently cited as his successor, but the choice could also be made on a person from the military.

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