The Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau is seeking to mend internal rifts after a camp within the group called for an election boycott and the amendment of the group’s internal regulations.
In a statement published on the Brotherhood’s official website on Friday, Mahmoud Ghozlan, a member of the Guidance Bureau, called on members of the so-called opposition camp to fight with the rest of the Brotherhood the “corruption and the oppression to which the group and the nation are subjected.”
In his article, which openly admitted the existence of an opposition camp within the Brotherhood, Ghozlan said that that faction has the right to express its opinion, but wondered, “Does the Brotherhood have to do what one or all of you are asking for, even if it goes against the majority opinion of the group’s Shura Council?”
Ghozlan added that the decision of the Brotherhood as an institution is what counts in the end. He added that differences should be patched up without leaking these issues to the media, which he said seeks to create divisions within the Brotherhood.
Meanwhile, Khaled Dawoud, a member of the opposition camp, said the Brotherhood insists on denying the truth and casts doubts over the legitimacy of the Shura Council elections, adding that the group does not act as an institution.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
