Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa... who was head of the Arab League for approximately two normal lifespans, accomplishing nothing that was obvious to the casual observer ...
, said that he is not willing to run in upcoming presidency elections, expressing his support for Egypt's military chief, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, if he runs.
"Amr Moussa supports the will of the majority of having chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi as the president of the country, so he decided that he is not willing to run this year for president," Yara Khalaf, a spokesperson for Moussa, told Al-Ahram Online.
Khalaf said Moussa's team will publish updates if he changes his mind. Another spokesperson, Ahmed Kamel, added that Moussa has declared this many times in blurbs that he will not run for president.
During a recent panel hosted by the Ministry of Youth, Moussa said "If Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi refuses to run [for the presidency], we will urge him to do so."
While El-Sisi had initially announced that he would not seek power, he has more recently said that the possibility is open.
A number of campaigns have sprung up to pressure the general to run for president in elections expected in the first half of 2014.
Moussa, who came fifth in Egypt's first post-revolution presidential election in June 2012, also headed of the 50-member committee tasked in August with amending the 2012 constitution drafted under the rule of ousted president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
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