Presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh launched an attack on other presidential hopefuls, claiming that they have received financial support from abroad.
Candidates from the previous regime have received funds “to buy votes of people who were impoverished by the ousted regime,” while the vote price reached LE2,000 so that a modified Mubarak regime would be put in place, he added at an electoral conference in Abu Hommos, in Beheira Governorate.
“A candidate who belongs to a political party cannot rule Egypt now. I run as an independent so I don’t take orders from anyone,” he said.
“The electoral platform is not important. What is important is the person who is going to put it into effect. We have national experts who can draft a development program in two weeks. State employees in ministries and constituencies are the team that will put the platform into effect,” he said.
“There are many honest people among them who work in the state's bodies, from the presidential office to the smallest council in any village, and no one can put a presidential platform into effect without them.”
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
