Tamarod to compete in elections
The Tamarod campaign announced its intention to contest all seats in the next parliamentary elections at a press conference Tuesday.
Tamarod is famous for running one of the most successful grassroots campaigns in Egyptian history, when it collected signatures protesting the rule of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first president to be elected and second to be deposed. The campaign claimed to have gathered 22 million signatures.
This would be the new group's first foray into electoral politics.
Co-founders Mahmoud Badr and Mohamed Abdel Aziz are representatives in the council of 50, which is currently drafting Egypt’s constitution.
The campaign also announced that another co-founder, media spokesperson Hassan Shaheen, will be overseeing the election effort.
At the press conference, Shaheen said the group wanted to avoid the "corruption" of the elections in 2012, in which the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party won the most seats, and that it wants the new parliament to represent the revolution.
Shaheen said the campaign would support “patriotic” personalities that run.
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