Egyptian presidential candidate and chairman of the New al-Ghad Party, Ayman Nour, said the party's legal committee will appeal against the new elections' law. The party will not withdraw from the parliamentary elections, Nour said yesterday during his weekly seminar. "I sent Egypt's ruling military council a message of my objection against the latest elections law, which contradicts the law proposed by the democratic alliance of 28 political parties and movements." Nour said the current elections law burdens voters and doesn't work for small parties with no alliance with other political parties, not to mention his adherence to the democratic alliance's proposed law. The People's Assembly elections must be separate from the Shura council's election; the electoral system should be run by a ratio list of 100 percent, said Nour. He denied rumors of his party withdrawing from the next parliamentary elections, only objected the number of chairs appointed in the next parliament. "Our alliance is electoral and not political and I stress, the party won't give up its principles. IT will not, however, be deceived either." Nour said the next parliament must have political diversity to reflect all existing political trends after the January 25 Revolution. He also said the New al-Ghad Party will participate in the demonstrations on September 9 to support the revolution and terminate the transitional authority phase of Egypt's military ruling council. The parties' affairs committee has pressured the new al-Ghad Party to change its name (al-Ghad al-Gadeed), but the party rejected the suggestion and proposed to escalate the issue to the political parties' court. Al-Ghad al-Gadeed Party is concerned about the parties' affairs committee's growing interference. 'Al-Ghad al-Gedeed' was recently announced as the rejuvenated version of Nour's al-Ghad Party, founded in 2004.
