The Revolutionary Youth Union has announced its planned participation in Friday's demonstration, which the union calls “The Friday of Handing Over Power,” but which the National Association for Change calls “The Friday of a Parliament without Former (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa received a mixed welcome on Monday during his visit to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.
Moussa's supporters extended him a warm welcome, although members of the Muslim Brotherhood shouted slogans against him, (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa, at a rally on Monday, said that he had met with the military council to discuss his proposal for an advisory committee of 100 public figures from various political forces to help the council resolve the political, (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa has proposed a "road map" for resolving the various political, economic and social crises that the country is currently facing. Included in his strategy is a proposal for a committee of between 500 and 1000 cvilians (...)
The April 6 Youth Movement has blamed the ruling military council for the return of members of the disbanded National Democratic Party (NDP) to the political scene.
In a statement, the activist group said former NDP members have managed to resume (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa on Sunday had breakfast with the dwellers of the Imam al-Shafi cemetery.
The breakfast was arranged by an NGO that helps shantytown and cemetery dwellers.
The dwellers were surprised to see Moussa and his (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa is willing to open a dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood group and its Freedom and Justice Party, he said, adding that he is against marginalizing any political group as Mubarak's regime once did.
He also said he (...)
Twenty members of the Wasat Party on Wednesday tendered their resignations in protest against the party leadership supporting Islamic thinker and presidential candidate Selim al-Awa without consulting the party's members. Last month, another 15 (...)
Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa announced Thursday that he opposes the formation of a civilian presidential council to run Egypt during its transitional period, calling on the country's military leaders to end the transitional period within five (...)
Mohamed Morsy, president of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, has ruled out the possibility of the Islamic parties winning the majority of seats in parliament.
“It is not in their interest,” he said.
“A coalition of several parties (...)
Fifteen members of the Wasat Party tendered their resignations on Wednesday, claiming party leaders were favoring wealthy and prominent members at the expense of ordinary ones.
They also said that party leaders had appointed their relatives to key (...)
Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa met with religious leaders in Alexandria on Sunday as part of his nationwide presidential election campaign, receiving a warm welcome from at least one imam.
“This man's visit is like the sky sending the rain to the (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa has described as both amusing and unrealistic a poll conducted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on its Facebook page. The poll sought to explore the popularity of several prospective presidential (...)
Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa has renewed his call for holding presidential elections in Egypt before parliamentary elections, provided that the new president supervises the drafting of a new constitution for the country.
The constitutional (...)
The various revolutionary coalitions announced on Monday that they would launch a campaign to collect five million signatures to a document requesting to draft a constitution for the country before parliamentary elections, which are currently (...)
Three secular political parties have agreed to run in the parliamentary elections on a unified list that includes candidates from the liberal, leftist, nationalist and Islamist trends. The parties are the Democratic Front Party, the Reform and (...)
Outgoing Arab League secretary general and likely presidential candidate Amr Moussa said on Monday that he rejects the idea of forming a presidential council to rule Egypt during the transitional period.
Liberal forces have been calling for the (...)
Presidential candidates Amr Moussa and Hisham al-Bastawisy are traveling to Europe to present their electoral programs to the Egyptian communities living there, in an attempt to win their votes in the coming presidential elections.
“I suggest (...)
The much-awaited "dialogue" event between the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and revolutionary youth groups collapsed prematurely on Wednesday, after the various groups attending failed to engage in any meaningful dialogue.
The (...)
Prison hospitals, especially the Tora Prison hospital, are not equipped to deal with critical cases, said Egyptian Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy on Wednesday. The statement came one day after the medical committee charged with examining ousted (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa said on Monday that the next Egyptian president will not win the election by more than 52 percent of the vote due to the high level of competition in the race.
At a meeting in his office on Monday, Moussa also said (...)
The 25 January Revolution Youth Coalition (RYC) announced on Tuesday that it would be participating in the call for a million-man protest on Friday, which has been dubbed the “Friday for Political Corruption”.
The RYC will join the protest to demand (...)
The Arab League announced an urgent meeting for Arab foreign ministers on May 15 at the headquarters of the League in Oman to choose a successor for current chief Amr Moussa, whose term ends that day.
A discussion of the situations in Libya, Yemen (...)
Young members of the Muslim Brotherhood are objecting to the appointment of several leading group figures to senior roles within the newly-created Freedom and Justice Party.
Their objections reflect tensions within the Brotherhood as it seeks to (...)
The funeral of Diaa Eddin Dawoud, president of the Nasserist Party, took place on Wednesday at his hometown of al-Rouda in Damietta. He had just turned 85 years of age.
The funeral was attended by the governor of Damietta and leaders of the Muslim (...)