Mubarak will not run again: Arabiya TV citing reports
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Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak attends a meeting in Cairo, January 30, 2011.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - President Hosni Mubarak will say in a speech that he will step down at the next election but would stay in office till then to meet demands of protesters in that period, Al Arabiya TV said on Tuesday.
It sourced the news to unnamed reports.
It said the president would make the comments in a speech later on Tuesday.
The next presidential election is scheduled for September. Until now, officials had indicated Mubarak, 82, would likely run for a sixth six-year term of office.
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Comments (3)
robert1234 wrote:
I doubt the people of Egypt are stupid enough to allow Mubarak the time to remove the opposition and control the next election as he did the last. He must be desperate to make such a stupid offer!
robert1234 wrote:
Mubarak must be insane to think the people of Egypt will allow him until September to rig the next election like he did the last one, and to remove the leadership of the opposition with torture and murder. People may be stupid, but not THAT stupid!
CDN_finance wrote:
Good. Now let’s get int’l monitors in there to make sure this guy doesn’t stack the deck so that he’s ‘appointing’ the next president.
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