An electoral alliance called to back newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections appears to have failed to drum up interest so far among the country’s political groups.
Almost a week ago, former foreign minister and presidential candidate Amr Moussa began hosting talks to build up a coalition to run in the upcoming parliamentary polls for the purpose of backing El-Sisi – the former army chief who led the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year and won last month’s presidential election by nearly 97 percent.
But the call appears to have found little favour within the political spectrum in the Arab world’s biggest nation.
Another coalition was announced days later by Egypt’s oldest party, the liberal Wafd Party, drawing many groups Moussa had held talks with and thereby pulling out the rug from under the former diplomat’s alliance…
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