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| Nour Party parliamentary candidate in North Sinai shot dead | |
| 2015-10-25 | |
| [AlAhram] A parliamentary candidate of the Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist group running for parliament, was rubbed out Saturday while leaving his house in the North Sinai city of Al-Arish, security sources told Al-Ahram Arabic website. Mostafa Abdel-Rahman, a pharmacist, was the only candidate running for Nour Party in North Sinai. He was also the general secretary of the party in the governorate. Eyewitnesses told security sources that two unknown assailants riding a cycle of violence shot up Abdel-Rahman. No group has yet grabbed credit for Abdel-Rahman's liquidation. The Salafist Nour Party is the only Islamist-based party that supported the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. They were also supporters of the "roadmap" that was implemented following Morsi's ouster and entails three stages: a constitutional referendum, presidential polls and parliamentary elections. The Nour Party, the political arm of the Salafist Call, are supporters of Egypt's current president, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, and are the only Islamist grouping participating in the parliamentary elections. Egypt's parliamentary elections started in their first phase on 18-19 October in 14 governorates. Elections in the rest of Egypt's governorates (13 in total including North Sinai) will take place 22-23 November. Also on Saturday, a low ranking police officer and two conscripts were killed and eight conscripts injured following the kaboom of a roadside kaboom targeting an armored police vehicle on the ring road of Al-Arish.
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , Al-Nour won about a quarter of the vote in the country's first parliamentary election held later that year. But with memories of Morsi's ouster and the bloody crackdown on his supporters still fresh, Al-Nour alienated much of its base and is viewed as a traitor by the Brotherhood, which just a few years ago was the country's most organized political force. Al-Nour's Secretary-General Galal Morra dismissed speculation that Abdel-Rahman was killed because the Al-Nour Party supports the Egyptian military. "We did not betray anyone and we don't know who did this or why they did it," he said. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Salafist, huh? So .."natural causes"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-10-25 09:55 |