Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was uncompromising in his first television interview since an**uncing his run for Egypt's presidency, insisting the Islamist movement of the elected leader he ousted was "finished". Sisi, who is expected to trounce his sole opponent in the May 26-27 election, made ** attempt in the interview's first part aired late Monday to reach out to critics of his overthrow of Egypt's only freely elected president Mohamed Morsi last July. Instead he appealed for the support of the millions of opponents of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood who protested in the days running up to his ouster, insisting that it was they, and **t he, who had finished the Brotherhood as a political force. The Brotherhood was Egypt's best-organised political force for decades even though it has been banned for most of the time since its foundation in 1928, and Sisi has faced Western calls to reach out to its supporters.
05-07-2014, 12:50 AM
Egypt's Sisi uncompromising in first TV appeal to voters
Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was uncompromising in his first television interview since an**uncing his run for Egypt's presidency, insisting the Islamist movement of the elected leader he ousted was "finished". Sisi, who is expected to trounce his sole opponent in the May 26-27 election, made ** attempt in the interview's first part aired late Monday to reach out to critics of his overthrow of Egypt's only freely elected president Mohamed Morsi last July. Instead he appealed for the support of the millions of opponents of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood who protested in the days running up to his ouster, insisting that it was they, and **t he, who had finished the Brotherhood as a political force. The Brotherhood was Egypt's best-organised political force for decades even though it has been banned for most of the time since its foundation in 1928, and Sisi has faced Western calls to reach out to its supporters.
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