Egypt's Education Ministry referred the directors of a Cairo private school to interrogation for hosting a seminar tipping Egypt's military ruler for presidency, according to Al-Badeel, a leftist news website.
The ministry's private education department will supervise the interrogations with De La Salle Frere school's board over the campaign supporting Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi for president, the website said.
Al-Badeel quoted Rania Khalifa, the education minister's media coordinator, as saying that the ministry panel sent to the school had confirmed the incident. She added that organizing such an event inside the school is illegal.
Dozens of the school's students and alumi had protested inside the school, demanding that the administration apologize for hosting the "Field Marshal for President" campaign.
The campaign sparked discontent among activists who worry that the military has political ambitions beyond the transitional period.
A political group calling itself Egypt Above All launched a campaign in late October supporting Tantawi for president and posters of the field marshal appeared in Cairo and Alexandria.
Egypt's presidency has been occupied by military figures since the fall of the monarchy in 1952, from Mohamed Naguib, to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and finally Hosni Mubarak. This history has created doubt around the military council's seriousness about handing power to a civilian government.
