Surprise: Muslim Brotherhood may offer candidate for Egyptian presidency after all

The organization is under intense pressure from younger adherents to back former Brotherhood member Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who is already running for president. Aboul Fotouh, who was seen as a leader of a more progressive part of the Brotherhood, was ousted for breaking the rules and declaring himself a candidate. Many young members who joined his campaign were also expelled…

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Omar Ashour, an expert on Islamist movements from Britain’s Exeter University and a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, said the Brotherhood faces an internal rebellion that will intensify if the group endorses a non-
Islamist candidate — such as former foreign minister Amr Moussa or the former head of the military advisory council, Mansour Hassan — and might nominate a candidate to save itself from splintering.

“They have no options,” Ashour said.

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