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| A vote on Morsi last July would have prevented rift in Egypt: Islamist leader |
| 2014-05-13 |
| [Al Ahram] Magdy Qorqor, a leading member of Egypt's largest Islamist alliance, said the binary division currently engulfing the country could have been prevented if Moslem Brüderbund supporters had agreed to hold a referendum on deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... prior to his ouster. In a Sunday evening interview with privately-owned Al-Tahrir TV channel, Qorqor -- a long-time member of the Islamist New Labour Party and a leader in the pro-Morsi National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) -- also said the alliance acknowledges that Egypt's current reality now exceeds their demand for Morsi's reinstatement. The prominent Islamist additionally stated that he denounces violence, whether practised by protesters or security forces. His comments come only days after a number of pro-Morsi political forces unveiled in a presser in Brussels what they dubbed a "charter of principles" to reclaim the 25 January uprising, urging "revolutionary forces" to rally behind the document. The 10-article document listed a series of demands including: a pluralist administration of the country, the army's return to the barracks and disengagement from politics, transitional and social justice, the safeguarding of general freedoms and rights, the protection of dignity and the uprooting of corruption. Representatives of the NASL, a 14-party Islamist coalition, said they were still considering the initiative, adding that some of the group's members have "individually" endorsed the document. "The alliance is not making any demands that contradict the Brussels' document," said Qorqor, stressing that those who announced the initiative from the Belgian capital did not insist on Morsi's reinstatement per se but, rather, on what they described as a "return to the democratic path". Islamists and supporters of the deposed president have consistently refused to acknowledge the mass protests that contextualised his ouster last summer, accusing the military of staging a coup that sabotaged democracy. Qorqor added that the alliance remains committed to its three demands: "regaining the 25 January revolution and the democratic path, defeating the coup, and safeguarding the rights of the deaders and the injured". |
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