CAIRO: A group of activists have hung up posters around Egypt's capital supporting the country's intelligence chief as a possible candidate in next year's presidential elections. Launched Thursday, the campaign for Omar Suleiman is the latest stab against a possible father-son succession in which President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's leader of nearly 30 years, passes power to his son, banker-turned-politician Gamal. Mubarak, 82, and his son deny such a plan exists, but Gamal Mubarak's political influence has been growing since 2000. Opposition has been vocal against such a succession, floating names of alternative candidates like Suleiman and former UN nuclear agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei. The posters call Suleiman a "real alternative."
