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Egypt's Sabahi offered VP position to quit presidency race

April 18, 2014 at 9:20 am

The Egyptian leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi is currently subjected to pressures from Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s campaign to withdraw from the race in return for Vice President position, sources from Sisi’s campaign told Almesryoon website.


The sources said that Sabahi’s withdrawal “would help unite the [anti-Brotherhood] front and would pave the way for better scenarios.”

Sabahi came third in the 2012 presidential elections, following Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik.

Founder of the unofficial pro-Sisi campaign “Kammel Gemeelak” (Fulfill your Promise) Rifai Nasrallah said that Field Marshal Sisi is not preoccupied with Sabahi’s candidacy “because he is confident that he will win the elections.”

The official Sisi-for-President campaign will be launched after the decision by the Higher Elections Committee to approve Sisi’s bid, Nasrallah said.

The Kammel Gemeelak campaign claims that it collected more than 230,000 authorizations for Sisi within few days, compared to 20,000 collected for Sabahi in the same period.