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El-Fiqi nomination rejected by 6 April movement The 6 April Youth Movement declare their opposition to any former member of the regime holding a political position whether inside or outside Egypt
The 6 April Youth Movement announced its rejection to the nomination of Mostafa El-Fiqi for the post of Arab League secretary-general. The Egyptian candidate has been nominated to succeed the outgoing Amr Moussa who declared his intention to run for Egypt's presidential elections. The movement has asked the interim government and the military council to rethink this nomination as it, according to the youth movement, bears negative indications "of possible roles, for the crooked and rotten people of the defunct National Democratic Party as well as the ousted regime, in running the country." “We do not accept from a government that represents the revolutionaries and takes its legitimacy from the 25 January Revolution a candidate who has lived, pleased and served in the regime of corruption for many years to then represent Egypt as secretary-general ofthe Arab League; El-Fiqi strived to face-lift the ugly image of the regime, as well as defend and market the regime socially, culturally and politically,”the movement declared in a statement. The movement has strongly slammed El-Fiqi, arguing his history makes him an unfavourable candidate for any political position both inside and outside Egypt. The former diplomat worked as Mubarak's information secretary from 1985 to 1992. He also chaired the Arab Affairs Committee in the dissolved Upper House. “The former aid to ousted president Mubarak won his seat in the 2005 parliament elections through rigging, according to a testimony by Councillor Nuha El-Zeni, with the expenses of former MP Gamal Heshamt; [it is a] history that makes [El-Fiqi] unqualified to represent Egypt in such a prestigious position,” the movement concluded.
