Magdy Ashour, the only Muslim Brotherhood candidate to win in recently concluded parliamentary elections, said he would not give in to pressure by the group's leadership to relinquish his new seat in the People's Assembly.
“The group can't do anything to me because I was never a member in the first place,” Ashour said.
Muslim Brotherhood Secretary-General Mahmoud Hussein, for his part, said the group had already disavowed Ashour. “And we plan to challenge the incoming parliament in court for all the vote-rigging that took place during the polls,” he said.
In an online statement on Thursday, the brotherhood asserted that the incoming assembly did not represent the public and called for its dissolution in order to preserve Egypt’s international image.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
