Amr Moussa, Arab League secretary general and potential presidential candidate, said he has not made any deals with figures from the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) for the coming presidential election.
At a conference in Qena Friday, Moussa said he is the target of smear campaigns and that he is being falsely accused of inviting key NDP figures to his rallies in Egyptian cities.
"I have never been a member of the NDP, nor have I ever carried its membership card," he said. “I was Egypt’s foreign minister but never a minister who served the regime.”
Moussa said that Egypt’s declining regional and international roles has caused social and economic indicators to drop. He called for restoring Egypt’s leadership in the region.
Moussa said his electoral platform includes finding immediate and realistic solutions to the unemployment problem.
He explained that an unemployed person is someone who has cannot find a job for reasons out of his or her hands, adding that an unemployment allowance should be set at half the minimum wage of LE1200.
A person without work would be eligible for the allowance for one year, and the government would be responsible for establishing training programs and creating job opportunities, Moussa said.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
