Latest in Tag: ElBaradei Highlight
Latest in Tag: ElBaradei
ElBaradei to run for president
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Former IAEA Chief Mohamed ElBaradei said he would run in the coming presidential elections, in a meeting with members of the National Association for Change (NAC) and the campaign supporting him at his Cairo home late Monday. Mostafa Al-Naggar, general coordinator of the campaign supporting ElBaradei, told Daily News Egypt that the …
ElBaradei urges Egypt to lift emergency law
By AFP MADRID: Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei urged the military leaders running Egypt to lift a three-decade old emergency law, saying in an interview Sunday that this would show the country was “on the right path”. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that succeeded President Hosni Mubarak when he stepped down in February …
Egypt’s revolution all over if vote held early: ElBaradei
By AFP ANKARA: All the gains of Egypt’s revolution will be lost if elections are held too soon because supporters of ousted president Hosni Mubarak will get back in power, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei warned Sunday. “If we go too fast, if we organize elections in four or five months, it will be all over …
ElBaradei shut out of Egypt talks
By AFP WASHINGTON: Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei said he was “not invited” to take part in negotiations Sunday on the future of a post-Mubarak Egypt, and criticized the talks as “opaque.” “I should start by saying I have not been part of the negotiations. I have not been invited to take part in …
Opposition groups divided on ElBaradei
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Mohamed ElBaradei announced to the protestors in Tahrir square on Sunday night that opposition groups had delegated him to form a temporary national unity government and called on President Hosni Mubarak to step down. However the coalition of opposition powers denied ElBaradei’s claim. “We (the coalition of opposition groups) didn’t delegate …
ElBaradei ready to ‘lead the transition’ in Egypt if asked
By AFP VIENNA: Nobel peace laureate and leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei said Thursday he was ready to “lead the transition” in Egypt if asked, as he left Vienna for Cairo where he was due to join in mass anti-government protests. “If people, in particularly young people, if they want me to lead the transition I …
ElBaradei to return to Egypt, join protesters
By Agencies CAIRO: Egyptian pro-reform advocate and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei is returning home Thursday to take part in the anti-government protests gripping his country. A spokesman for the pro-reform leader, Abdel-Rahman Samir, said ElBaradei was expected to join protests planned for after Friday prayers across the country. “He is coming back tonight (Thursday) …
MB, Baradei campaign members cite threats ahead of Jan. 25 protests
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Members of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the campaign supporting former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said they were interrogated and threatened by security forces in a bid to prevent them from participating in planned nationwide protests on Jan. 25. “A large number of officials in the Brotherhood’s administrative offices in …
Presidential hopeful wants chance to address parliament
CAIRO: A presidential candidate hopeful asked the parliament Wednesday to allow independent candidates to discuss their political programs with MPs in public sessions before the July 2011 registration. “I believe that now is an appropriate time for presidential candidates to prepare and [to] start discussing their political programs with the parliament in order to gain …
YEAREND SPECIAL: The rise and fall of new political players
By Marwa Al-A’asar This year witnessed the advent of new players on the Egyptian political scene, though some opposition forces were disappointed at the slight impact they have made so far. When Mohamed ElBaradei as a new opposition leader and Al-Wafd opposition party under new leadership emerged, they were perceived by many as possible alternatives …
Campaign accuses government of inciting lawsuits against ElBaradei
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: The campaign supporting former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei to run for president accused the regime of inciting lawsuits against ElBaradei and other campaign leaders, thus disturbing public peace and inciting civil disobedience. “This is clear evidence that the strategy of the regime in the coming period is to strike indirect blows [to …
ElBaradei in Minya: Opposition will unite
By Sarah El Deeb /AP MAGHAGHA: Leading Egyptian democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei said he is pushing to unify the country’s opposition groups to build enough numbers for pro-reform protests after parliamentary elections marred by widespread allegations of fraud. In a somber assessment of his movement for change, the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN …
ElBaradei calls on opposition to boycott 2011 presidential elections
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on opposition groups to unite and boycott the upcoming 2011 presidential elections if they are not given guarantees that the elections will be free and fair. In a video message from ElBaradei posted on his website on Tuesday, he described the “so-called” parliamentary elections that took …
Absent ElBaradei’s boycott call goes unheard in Egypt vote
By Mona Salem / AFP CAIRO: Egypt’s former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has missed a much-anticipated opportunity to press for change by failing to unite the opposition in an election boycott, analysts and diplomats say. ElBaradei, 68, has been out of the country since September and has remained largely silent in the run-up to …
Ex-IAEA expert on Egypt’s nuclear power ambitions
CAIRO: Egypt will issue an international tender for its first nuclear power plant in El-Debaa by the end of 2010, according to reports citing the country’s energy minister. During a trip to Russia, Energy Minister Hassan Younes told reporters that the plant is slated to begin operations in 2019, costing an estimated $4 billion, and …
ElBaradei campaigners say assaulted by security in Alexandria
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Security forces assaulted three members of the campaign supporting former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei in Alexandria on Monday while they were collecting signatures for his seven demands for change, a campaign official said. The supporters were taken by plain-clothed security forces into a microbus and detained for a couple of hours then …
ElBaradei campaign accuses security of ‘bugging’ their office
CAIRO: The campaign supporting former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei to run for President and promoting his reform demands said in a statement that security had bugged their offices. Recording devices were allegedly planted in the office of the campaign’s general coordinator Abdul Rahman Yusuf to spy on him and the keep records of the his …
Political change will come in Egypt, says ElBaradei
VIENNA: Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei blasted Egypt’s "authoritarian" government and insisted political change was coming, in an interview Saturday with the Austrian daily Kurier. "The more unpopular this regime becomes, the more it realizes how much it is hated, the most authoritarian it becomes," ElBaradei told the newspaper, according to a German transcription …