A revolutionary activist group in Mansoura has accused the Ahmed Shafiq campaign of buying votes and threatening voters with violence at the polls.
Shafiq took first place in the governorate, with 450,000 votes, but in a statement from the “Catch the Feloul” group, the organization said Shafiq had obtained many of these votes either by purchasing them or threatening voters with violence.
“Catch the Feloul” is an activist group which works to expose members of the former regime and educate people about them.
In their statement, they said that members of the now-dissolved National Democratic Party had blanketed the area in order to coerce voters into casting their ballots for Shafiq.
“We emphasize that we disassociate ourselves from any people who voted for the Torah Prison candidate (Ahmed Shafiq) in Dakahlia, and that if Ahmed Shafiq becomes president of the republic, we will escalate our efforts,” the statement said.
In the statement, the group implied that such efforts might be more revolutionary, such as are taking place in “other Arab countries.”
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
