Salafi leader Mahmoud Amer called on Islamist parties to field a unified list of candidates in the upcoming parliamentary election to counter secular and liberal groups' power.
Amer said forming a strong alliance of Islamist powers will enable them to achieve a parliamentary majority and form an Islamist government.
Hossam Abul Bukhary, the official spokesperson for the Coalition of New Muslims, said representatives of the various Islamist parties will soon meet to discuss coordination ahead of the elections.
President of the Salafi Asala Party Adel Afify said his party would not run against candidates from the Salafi Nour Party in the upcoming election, even though the latter has withdrawn from the Democratic Alliance, which the Asala Party joined recently. He also said he will ask the Democratic Alliance not to pit Assala candidates against candidates from the Nour Party or any other Islamist party that is not part of the alliance.
Afify added that even though Asala is allied with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, it is not willing to compete against the Nour Party.
Afify also said his party would participate in formulating the Democratic Alliance's electoral platform and work to include a provision that states that only Islamic Law is above the constitution. Articles of the constitution should never contradict with Islamic Law, he said.
He added that the party would ensure that the constitution does not describe the state as a civil one, since that would give the state a secular nature.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
