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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Nephew of Egypt's slain president to run in election

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

CAIRO: The nephew of assassinated Egyptian head of state Anwar Sadat plans to run in September's presidential election - a race that an Islamist militant convicted for the killing says he also wants to contest.

"Talaat Sadat will present his candidacy to become president of the republic," spokesman Mohsen Eid said, adding that he planned to make a formal announcement today at a monument in Cairo marking the site where his uncle was assassinated.

Sadat's manifesto will be based on the same principals as his uncle "the hero of war and peace," according to a statement from his office. Talaat, aged in his 50s, is an MP with the small opposition party Al-Ahrar (The Free).

Anwar Sadat, hailed by the West but reviled in the Arab world for signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, was assassinated by an Islamist commando during a military parade in October 1981.

Abed al-Zumur, the former leader of the Islamist Jihad movement, was jailed for his alleged role in Sadat's killing and remains in detention despite having served his sentence.

He is among a number of Egyptians to throw their hat into the ring for the country's first contested presidential election, including feminist activist Nawal Saadawi, and prominent opposition party leader Ayman Nour.

Egypt has been ruled since 1981 by President Hosni Mubarak under a state of emergency imposed after the assassination. He has not yet announced whether he will run for another term or seek to pass on power to his son Gamal.

In another development, a doctor and a lawyer were detained for handing out opposition pamphlets  calling for an end to the state of emergency, an official of their Kefaya (Enough) party said.

"Enough of corruption, unemployment, repression and arrests. Enough of a party that is neither patriotic nor democratic," the pamphlets said mocking the name of the ruling National Democratic Party.

Egyptians voted in a referendum last month to support plans for what the government - under pressure at home and abroad to adopt political reforms - says will be the first multi-candidate elections. Those wanting to run must submit their candidacies from July 18. - AFP

 

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السادات مرشحا

وفي ما يتعلق بالاستعدادات للانتخابات الرئاسية المقررة في سبتمبر/ أيلول القادم أعلن عضو مجلس الشعب المصري طلعت السادات- نجل شقيق الرئيس السابق أنور السادات- عزمه على ترشيح نفسه لتلك الانتخابات.

وقال متحدث باسم السادات (50 عاما) إن عضو حزب الأحرار المعارض سيعقد مؤتمرا صحفيا الخميس القادم أمام ضريح الرئيس السادات حيث سيبين الأسباب التي دعته للترشح.

وكان الرئيس السادات اغتيل برصاص إسلاميين مسلحين خلال استعراض عسكري في السادس من أكتوبر/ تشرين الأول 1981.

يذكر أن الانتخابات الرئاسية القادمة سيتنافس فيها عدد من المرشحين للمرة الأولى في تاريخ مصر بعد تعديل الدستور بهذا الخصوص في مايو/ أيار الماضي, حيث سمح التعديل بانتخاب رئيس الجمهورية عن طريق الانتخاب الشعبي المباشر.

المصدر: الجزيرة نت

تم تعديل 17 يونيو 2005 بواسطة Mohammad