Muslim Brotherhood nominates El-Shater for presidency

[Winged Isis]

Breaking: Muslim Brotherhood nominates El-Shater for presidency
Ahram Online, Saturday 31 Mar 2012

Breaking: Khairat El-Shater resigns from Muslim Brotherhood to run for presidency

The Muslim Brotherhood will nominate its number two man Khairat El-Shater to run for the presidency of Egypt, said a leading member of the Islamist group. MB called for a press conference at 8.30 pm to announce the news.
The leading member, who attended a meeting of MB Shura (consultation) Council, told Al-Ahram Arabic Gate that the decision was taken by a fragile majority of 56 votes against 52.

[Arthur]

Hmm! How many times did the FJP/MB promise not to field a presidential candidate?

The Muslim Brotherhood, which currently controls the two chambers of parliament, has decided to field a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, in flagrant violation of a repeated promise to the Egyptian people not to do just that. It declared Saturday that its deputy leader Khirat El-Shater will be its one and only candidate in the election, an announcement that has literally sent shockwaves across the country.

The group, founded back in 1928, had vowed during the January 2011 revolution and before the ouster of Hosni Mubarak not to field a candidate or even support any of its members who might run for the most-coveted post. The pledge was reiterated repeatedly and always with the rationale that it would not be in the best interest of the country to have an Islamist at the helm of power in post-revolution Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood even went further in trying to prove its commitment to that decision by sacking Abdel Moneim Abu el-Fotouh, one of its leading figures, after he decided to contest the election. But in a blink of an eye, the group decided to swallow that pledge and change the rules of the game.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 04549.html

[arsanyf]

About time, they must have pushed a name into the race eventually

Shater got DQied, now it's Morsi