Interim President Adly Mansour said that the Muslim Brotherhood should abandon violence, affirming that he has not been a “party in any negotiations with the Brotherhood.”
In an interview with the privately-owned satellite TV channel CBC on Sunday, Mansour said that choosing the security solution is not the perfect option for the country and that political security will not be restored.
Mansour also rejected the violence by police, but he did not deny that police personnel could perform oppressive practices saying that whoever do so should be questioned. He added that he investigated himself more than accident in this regard.
Security aspects as well as increasing activity by police and military, according to Mansour, is attributed to the circumstances that the country has been going through indicating to violence and terrorism.
Mansour also expressed the need for a country that is governed by law. He reassured the youth that the detainees who will be proven innocent will be released.
The public prosecutor, according to Mansour, has released large number of detainees, due to hygienic circumstances.
Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, defense minister, works in his field only, which is the armed forces, Mansour said. He does not intervene within affairs of the Cabinet. He is the last one who speaks during meetings of the Cabinet or the National Defense Council.
Mansour affirmed that Sisi has never requested from him to do or abstain from anything, nor does he interfere in his duties as a president.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
