EGYPT’S MOST POPULAR PARTY INSISTS ON MORSI’S REINSTATEMENT

      Cairo, 8 Ramadan 1434/16 July 2013 (MINA) – The most popular party in Egypt, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) insisted that the ousted leader should be urgently restored to his post as Egypt’s legitimate president.

    Spokesman of the FJP, Murad Ali said support of the Arab, Muslim and international community proved that they were right to continue their struggle, the Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Tuesday.

      Former Local Development Minister and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Ali Beshr told the AA if the army responded to their demands and reinstated Morsi, the FJP would discuss all resolution offers with all sides to end the crisis in the country.

      Beshr said a referendum could be held on Morsi’s staying in office untill 2016 or early presidential elections. He also criticized the army for not revealing Morsi’s whereabouts.

      Meanwhile, pro Morsi protests are still continuing in the capital, Cairo, Alexandria and 20 other cities across Egypt. Morsi supporters are chanting anti-military slogans. The number of protesters in Cairo has exceeded 2 million. The Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) called on supporters of Morsi to take to the streets across Egypt.

      The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is an Islamist political party and the most popular party in Egypt. The president of the party, Mohamed Morsi, won the 2012 presidential election and in the 2011 parliamentary election it won more seats than any other party.

      It is nominally independent, but has strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, the largest and best-organized political group in Egypt.

     The 2011–2012 Egyptian Parliamentary election resulted in the FJP winning 47.2 per cent of all seats in the country’s lower house of parliament, with fellow Islamist parties al Nour and al Wasat winning 24.7 and 2 per cent, respectively. (T/P09/E1).

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).