{"id":2756,"date":"2014-06-17T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T02:22:55","slug":"alliance-called-by-amr-moussa-stumbles-ahead-of-egypts-parliamentary-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/alliance-called-by-amr-moussa-stumbles-ahead-of-egypts-parliamentary-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance called by Amr Moussa stumbles ahead of Egypt&#8217;s parliamentary poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electoral alliance called to back newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Egypt&#8217;s upcoming parliamentary elections appears to have failed to drum up interest so far among the country&#8217;s political groups.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 the former army chief who led the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last year and won last month&#8217;s presidential election by nearly 97 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But the call appears to have found little favour within the political spectrum in the Arab world&#8217;s biggest nation.<\/p>\n<p>Another coalition was announced days later by Egypt&#8217;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&#8217;s alliance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/103873\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Alliance-called-by-Egypts-Moussa-stumbles-ahead-of.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electoral alliance called to back newly-inaugurated President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Egypt&#8217;s upcoming parliamentary elections appears to have failed to drum up interest so far among the country&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[953,258,256,955,957,956,4697,415,952,545,958,633,257,4694,954,254],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-el-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amr-moussa","tag-arab-world","tag-backing-el-sisi","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts-parliamentary-poll","tag-islamist-president-mohamed-morsi","tag-liberal-wafd-party","tag-mohamed-morsi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-parliamentary-elections","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}