Salifi Nour Party spokesperson Nader Bakkar said on Tuesday that pointing out the defects of presidential candidates of Ahmed Shafiq and Amr Moussa is a national duty while calling upon supporters of presidential hopefuls to focus on supporting their candidates without defaming others. Bakkar warned on his Facebook page against electing Ahmed Shafiq or Amr Moussa, adding that he "cannot find an excuse for the revolutionaries to support Moussa or Shafiq" after everyone saw "the arrogance of the former and the latter's insolence." He added that the "insistence of some parties to defame Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh results from much-hated fanaticism." Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a Salafi preacher who was disqualified from the presidential race, called upon Egyptians abroad Friday not to elect Moussa and Shafiq, arguing that "there is no shred of patriotism in electing them." "Each of them attended weekly cabinet meetings for years silently, while Egyptians were tortured, their money plundered, eight elections were rigged, and police departments were tearing humans apart," he said. Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
