Supporting Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy in the presidential runoff election is not negotiable because it is a religious issue, not a political one, a leader of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party has said.
“We have no other option,” said Shabaan Abdel Latif, the party’s secretary in the township of Ehnasia in Beni Suef Governorate.
Abdel Latif told Al-Masry Al-Youm Monday that Nour Party’s secretariats in villages and townships have started coordinating efforts with their counterparts in the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party to start campaigning for Morsy in the runoff.
Marches will be staged in villages to curb attempts at driving a wedge between “the two largest Islamist currents in the world,” Abdel Latif said.
He said the election of Shafiq would constitute a reversion to the system that preceded the 25 January revolution last year.
“Shafiq’s success would mean the end of the revolution in every sense of the word,” he said.
Beni Suef FJP and Brotherhood leaders met with Brotherhood leader Tareq Hassan Gouda, who supported ex-Brother Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh — Morsy’s competitor — in the election’s first round. They met to agree on the final preparations for the runoff and to put an end to disagreements between the two campaigns in Beni Suef, to guarantee that the Islamic project would be implemented if Morsy wins, sources said, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
