Hazem Salah Abu Ismail has postponed "the last million-man protest" after meeting Wednesday with a state official he refused to name, who promised him political reform and an answer to his demands on Sunday.
Abu Ismail told Al-Masry Al-Youm yesterday that if his demands are not met he will set another date for the protest.
He was disqualified from the presidential race, slated for 23 and 24 May, after the Presidential Elections Commission said that official American documents proved that his mother had American nationality.
Abu Ismail's supporters were present during the clashes that erupted in Abbasseya last week between protestors, and police and the armed forces supported by anonymous civilians. Twelve people were left dead and hundreds wounded.
Abu Ismail denied in an interview with ONTV satellite channel on Monday any relation with the Abbasseya demonstrators.
He told Al-Masry Al-Youm that he is working to create an influential umbrella coalition or party and will announce the details on Saturday at Assad Ibn al-Forat Mosque, in Dokki, Cairo.
He said he will also announce who he will support in the presidential race.
Gamal Saber, the leader of a group called Must Be Hazem, said thousands of Abu Ismail supporters await his decision to support a candidate, saying there is a likelihood that he will back Mohamed Morsy, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, because "he is the only one calling for the application of Sharia law."
Saber said that his group is committed to Abu Ismail's candidate, and are waiting a new protest date if his demands are not met.
His main demands are not referring civilians to martial courts and releasing those detained during the Abbasseya violence.
