Potential presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei is scheduled to meet today with 70 Egyptian academics. The meeting will take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where ElBaradei is to deliver a lecture about nuclear disarmament.
Meanwhile, disagreements between ElBardei’s popular supporters and members of his National Association for Change (NAC) have escalated.
Abdel Rahman Youssef, coordinator of ElBaradei’s popular campaign, said he will not take part in a march on 3 May organized by the NAC to present demands to parliamentary speaker Fathi Sorour.
At a meeting with Ghad Party founder Ayman Nour, the Muslim Brotherhood said it supports ElBaradei’s views and principles but does not necessarily support him for the presidency. Both parties agreed that all political forces should find common grounds to take on the regime.
ElBaradei’s supporters in the US also differed among themselves over his alleged attempts to obtain the support of the US government for his proposed democratic reform in Egypt.
On the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, ElBaradei wrote “We will overcome our fear the way the Germans tore down the wall.”
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
