Potential presidential candidate Amr Moussa canceled his campaign rally scheduled for Sunday in Beni Suef, Upper Egypt, and instead went to a village to offer condolences to families of victims who died in an accident on Friday.
Moussa, the outgoing Arab League secretary general, entered the Beni Haydar village at 8:30 pm with a procession of 15 cars and prayed at the village mosque. The victims of the accident had died when a bus fell off a ferry in the Nile River.
"I came to offer condolences for the victims' families, not for campaigning," Moussa said. "I took the families feelings into consideration and preferred to cancel the conference."
Moussa had been criticized by opponents during a rally in Minya and previously, the campaign announced there was an organized attempt to disrupt his previous rallies in Upper Egyptian cities.
Moussa said he noticed specific aggressive questions are being asked at all of his rallies.
In a meeting with members of 25 January revolution youth organizations, the April 6 Youth Movement and the media, Moussa said he understands everybody's rights to their questions answered but dismissed asking questions in an aggressive way that makes dialogue uncivilized.
Moussa also addressed the recent Muslim Brotherhood statement that its Freedom and Justice Party will contest half of the parliamentary seats in the coming elections.
He said the ballot box will determine the outcome and that the Brotherhood is no more a banned group, but instead a political party that has rights and duties.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
