Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie has reiterated his assertion that the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) will not be nominating any of its members in the presidential elections, and that any group members who seek to be nominated will be banned from the group.
In May, the Brotherhood’s Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh announced he would run for president as an independent.
Meanwhile, Rafiq Habib, a Coptic intellectual and the vice president of the Brotherhood’s new Freedom and Justice Party said that Party Chairman Mohamed Morsi, Vice Chairman Essam al-Erian, and Secretary General Mohamed Saad al-Katatny have begun preparing to leave the Muslim Brotherhood group in order to take up their new positions within the new party.
Habib told Al-Masry Al-Youm that within the new party, a number of committees have been formed to temporarily administer its affairs until internal leadership elections have been held. He explained that these committees have been entrusted with supervising the party’s internal elections.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
