| “Please don’t hurt us!” |
Salafist party backed El-Sisi when he was first running for president in May 2014, and in 2013 had backed President Mohammed Morsi's ouster.Sunday's statement comes one day after Egypt's liberal Wafd Party voted not to nominate party chairman El-Sayed El-Badawi as a candidate in the March elections, affirming their support for El-Sisi.
The Egyptian Coalition, which includes around 30 parties, mostly pro-Sisi, also announced their support for the president’s election bid on Saturday.
The deadline for submitting candidacy requests to the elections commission is Monday.
If no one runs against El-Sisi, who submitted his candidacy papers last week, Article 26 of the law regulating the presidential elections says that the sole candidate can be elected if he secures a 'yes' vote from 5 percent of eligible voters.
| The Times of Israel has a photo of Al-Nour chief Yunes Makhion. His prayer bump is so spectacular as to suggest either severe concussion damage to his frontal lobe or an addiction to eye shadow pencils. |