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Saad Eddin Ibrahim's wife denies husband support for Gamal Mubarak candidacy
The wife of Egyptian academic Saad Eddin Ibrahim has denied that her husband supports Gamal Mubarak's candidacy for president in next year's elections, Al-Arabiya reported Wednesday (September 1st).
"My husband neither supported nor called for electing Gamal Mubarak," Barbara Ibrahim told the network. "There is a huge difference between supporting free elections and supporting a specific person," she said.
Ibrahim said Magdi al-Kordi, the head of the Popular Coalition for the Support of Gamal Mubarak visited her husband in Cairo and asked him to sign a statement in support of his candidacy. But she stressed that Saad Eddin Ibrahim "told him that any Egyptian man or woman has the right to run for the presidency."
Opposition activists, including Mohamed al-Baradei's movement National Assembly for Change criticised Ibrahim.
"He supported all the articles in the documents including the coalition's plan to collect five million signatures in support of the election of Gamal Mubarak," said al-Kordi.
Saad Eddin Ibrahim was imprisoned for his writing in Egypt, released in 2003 and lived abroad before returning early this month to visit family.
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I will vote for the one who is best and the most suitable for the country, the nominee who has a program to push Egypt forward and fight corruption. I am not affiliated with any party, because I believe that all of them are useless, and the National Democratic Party is corrupt to the core and a gang that wants to rob Egypt. The Egyptian government is a symbol of corruption. How can the owner of a hospital become the Minister of Health and the owner of a tourist company become the Minister of Tourism? It is, in fact, a government of businessmen, where money is stolen. History will not forget those who took bribes; but the problem is that every one of them thinks that he or she is the only one who receives bribes, so they are all silent.
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