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ElBaradei comes top in Egypt army Facebook survey
Published in Daily News Egypt on 20 - 07 - 2011

CAIRO: Former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is the most popular choice for next Egyptian president, according to an army survey conducted on Facebook.
The survey, which was launched a month ago on Facebook, asked members to rate their favorite for the country's top job, in an exercise criticized as unrepresentative.
ElBaradei got 25 percent of the votes of the 267,000 participants.
He was followed by Islamist thinker Mohamed Selim Al-Awa with 17 percent, and Ayman Nour — who heads the liberal al-Ghad opposition party — with 13 percent.
The survey was conducted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) —which took power when former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising in February — without explicitly stating its purpose.
The military council has yet to set the date for presidential elections, but said polls for the country's leader would be organized after legislative elections in autumn and the drafting of a new constitution.
Its online survey has been criticized for being limited to the Facebook community, which does not reflect dynamics on the ground.
Critics also slammed the army's choice of candidates, which included Mubarak's former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman who was briefly vice president, and Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force commander who headed Mubarak's last cabinet.
Suleiman came fourth in the online survey, although he has no plans to run for president, according to recent statements he made to the media.
The month-long survey, which ended on Wednesday, comes at a time of political upheaval, culminating this week in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at placating protesters who are furious at the slow pace of reform.
Protesters who first took to the streets to demand Mubarak's resignation have increasingly directed their anger at the ruling military, accusing it of maintaining its absolute grip on power and using Mubarak-era tactics to stifle dissent.


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