The main task of revolutionary forces is to focus on the new constitution, not the presidency, Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on his Twitter page Sunday.
ElBaradei, representing the unofficial Constitution Party, called for the future Constituent Assembly to draft a democratic constitution that guarantees the rights and freedoms that were laid out in Egypt’s 1954 Constitution.
The comments were ElBaradei’s first on the preliminary results of the presidential election’s first round.
He held the military council and political forces cooperating with it responsible for the “gloomy” political, constitutional, security and economic contexts in which the election was held.
The former International Atomic Energy Agency director also called for a national salvation government comprising highly efficient personalities to which the president-elect should delegate full powers until the new constitution is implemented.
The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohamed Morsy, appears set to compete in the presidential runoff with Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, in the 16–17 June vote.
On Saturday, both Morsy and Shafiq pledged to defend the gains of the revolution. They also proposed concessions in order to attract voters who did not support them in the first round.
