The liberal opposition Wafd Party will expel all candidates who did not abide by the party’s decision to withdraw from Sunday’s parliamentary election run-offs. The party’s executive board unanimously made the decision on Wednesday.
It notified the Speaker of Parliament and sent him a letter listing the names of expelled candidates. The party’s internal ‘Wafdists Against Rigging’ movement, formed on Wednesday, supported the decision.
The movement announced its plan to hold a symbolic funeral at the new parliament’s first session on Monday and place a coffin, upon which it will write “Today marks the death of Democracy,” before the mausoleum of the late Egyptian leader Saad Zaghloul.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
