Egypt’s ultra-conservative Islamist Al-Nour party announces support of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in his bid to be re-elected in March.
Sissi, who has been in power since 2014, appears set to run unopposed after all other presidential hopefuls announced they would not take part in the election on March 26-28.
Al-Nour chief Yunes Makhion says he is confident in Sissi’s policies on the economy, corruption, human rights and fighting terrorism, among others.
Egyptian Salafist al-Nour party leader Younes Makhioun (Screen capture: YouTube)
“The current president, Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi, is the most capable to carry out these heavy responsibilities, and to bring cooperation between all the state’s institutions of the armed forces, police, and parliament,” says Makhion.
This unity “would achieve stability, and steer the country away from many dangers,” he says.
Sissi was elected president a year after heading the 2013 military ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, amid mass protests against his one-year rule.
— AFP
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