Mohamed al-Beltagy, an MP and leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, said Tuesday that he has information that prominent figures affiliated with the collapsed regime are making arrangements to support presidential candidates in the upcoming elections.
A number of former members of the now-disbanded National Democratic Party, local councils, and former MPs held a meeting in Daqahlia Governorate Thursday to discuss how to support former vice-president and presidential hopeful Omar Suleiman, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported Saturday.
The Presidential Elections Commission disqualified Suleiman from running the race, but Ahmed Shafiq, who is widely considered part of Mubarak regime, is still running.
In a note on his Facebook page, Beltagy called on all revolutionary forces to unite against the remnants of the collapsed regime and military rule.
Beltagy stressed the necessity that all patriotic bodies push to correct the course of the revolution.
“The next two weeks are a very crucial period in the revolutionary scene; they may be the last chance to save the revolution,” he said.
The disqualified presidential hopeful Khairat al-Shater expressed the same point of view in an electoral rally in the Zawya al-Hamra neighborhood of Cairo.
Shater said that banning him from running in the elections is proof that “the regime of [ousted president Hosni] Mubarak is still governing.”
The people will maintain the goals of the revolution until constructing a governing system, and the people will stay in revolt until they achieves its goals, Shater said.
