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In egypt, candidates refine their images for runoff election by ferujkll sdff
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CAIRO — Egypt 's presidential candidates were busy Saturday polishing sound bitesand stretching the facts a bit as they re-marketed themselves asguardians of the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak and led to the nation's first free election for a leader inhistory. The campaigns of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi andformer Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik sought to broaden their appealbefore their runoff election next month. Neither man is regarded asepitomizing the spirit of the revolution — Shafik was primeminister during the deadly crackdowns on protesters days beforeMubarak fell last year — but politics is often about imagereadjustment. The battle to enlist new voters came a day after independent ballotcounts showed that Morsi had finished first in last week'sfirst-round presidential race with 26% of the vote, followed byShafik with 23%.
Leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahi and liberalIslamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh finished third and fourth,respectively. Sabahi, who lost to Shafik by a reported 700,000 votes, has askedfor a partial recount, claiming election violations. Officialresults are expected in a few days, but the new race is on. "I pledge to every Egyptian that there will be no turning back andno re-creation of the old regime," Shafik said at a newsconference. "Egypt has changed, and there will be no turning backthe clock.
We have had a glorious revolution. I pay tribute to thisglorious revolution and pledge to be faithful to its call forjustice and freedom." During his campaign, Shafik disparaged protesters and promised thatif he is elected, he will cut off power to Cairo's Tahrir Square toprevent further demonstrations. Such law-and-order rhetoriccaptivated his base, but the retired general and onetime fighterpilot, whose strong showing stunned the country, is maneuvering toreach a wider audience, including bewildered liberals and leftists. "The revolution has been hijacked from young groups that ignitedit," he said, adding that he will consult with revolutionary groupsif he is elected. Morsi's campaign did its best to invoke the revolution too.
TheBrotherhood, which controls nearly 50% of the parliament, was lateto the revolt and has since been criticized by activists as beingmore politically opportunistic than patriotic. The Brotherhood— one can almost hear a trill of ominous violins — hascharacterized Shafik as a Darth Vader-like holdover from theMubarak era. "Attempts are currently underway to return the ousted Mubarakregime to power. … The people will not allow this to pass,"said Essam Erian, vice president of the Brotherhood's Freedom andJustice Party.
Morsi and the Brotherhood urged unity against Shafik and tried todraw support from other camps. Aboul Fotouh, who broke away fromthe Brotherhood last year to run a consensus campaign, called ondisparate political forces to rise above their differences andstand against symbols of Mubarak's regime. Shafik has repeatedly warned that a Morsi presidency would giveIslamists sway over both branches of government to expand sharia law across public policy. He is attempting to capitalize on therift between the Brotherhood and secular and liberal politicalforces, which escalated after the Islamists' gained control of theparliament and liberals complained that the Brotherhood wasexcluding secularists and Coptic Christians from decision-making. The runoff is scheduled for June 16-17.
jeffrey.fleishman@latimes.com Hassan is a news assistant in The Times' Cairo bureau. I am Switches writer, reports some information about hitch bike rack , offset door hinge.
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