A year of hard-pounding in Egypt's political muck
New parties should have time to organise and engage. Only then should we go for elections, writes Mohamed ElBaradei
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All the gains of Egypt's revolution will be lost if elections are held too soon because supporters of ousted president Hosni Mubarak will get back in power, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei warned on Sunday."If we go too fast, if we organise elections in four or five months, it will be all over for the revolution, the old regime will perpetuate itself in another guise," the Nobel Peace Prize laureate told the Turkish daily Milliyet.
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Former UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei blasted Egypt's "authoritarian" government and insisted political change was coming, in an interview on Saturday with the Austrian daily Kurier."The more unpopular this regime becomes, the more it realises how much it is hated, the most authoritarian it becomes," ElBaradei told the newspaper, according to a German transcription of the interview published Saturday."That's untenable in the long term, change will come," the Nobel Peace Prize winner promised.
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Hundreds of Egyptians cheered former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday as he took his political reform campaign to the streets of the Nile Delta town of Mansura."Oh, ElBaradei… Egypt wants democracy!" and "There are thousands of alternatives in Egypt, ElBaradei is proof," chanted supporters of the high-profile dissident.The rally in Mansura, a university town half way between Cairo and the Mediterranean Sea, drew students dressed in T-shirts bearing his image, as well as activists ranging from doctors to taxi drivers.
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Egyptian dissident and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said he would run for president if true democratic reforms were implemented, the official MENA news agency reported on Thursday."When the candidacy applications are open, I have the intention to run," ElBaradei said during an interview on the private satellite channel ON TV, MENA said.But "if there is no real democratic system where people will be represented in the presidency and in parliament, then I will not be part of the decor and I will remain a political activist," he said.
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The return to Cairo of former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has injected energy into the political landscape, but many people wonder whether he is the "saviour" Egypt has been waiting for.ElBaradei, who arrived home on Friday to a rapturous welcome from hundreds of supporters, has repeatedly called for democratic change in Egypt since he stepped down as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year.
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So far the army has been leading the 'transition' in an opaque and exclusive manner. This has me – like many of my young colleagues – worried, says Mohamed ElBaradei
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Egypt's military leaders met a group including opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei and Arab League chief Amr Mussa on Tuesday to discuss upcoming reforms, state media said.The goal was to listen to their views on the current political, economic and social system following the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak on February 11 after weeks of protests, the state news agency MENA said.
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Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei sought to ease Western fears Wednesday that a post-Mubarak Egypt could turn against Israel and the United States."The hype that once Egypt becomes a democracy, it will become hostile to the US and hostile to Israel… these are the two hypes, and are fictions," ElBaradei told CBS News.ElBaradei, who earned a Nobel peace prize for his stewardship of the United Nations atomic watchdog, returned to Cairo shortly after protests erupted last month against President Hosni Mubarak's regime.
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