The Nobel Peace Prize and opposition Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei on Wednesday criticized the army of his country by the way is leading the transition after the departure of Hosni Mubarak. "I am critical of his performance because so far they have not done enough. Nor is his work. Do not they know how to run a country," said ElBaradei developed in extracts of an interview today issued information on Austrian public television.
"We need a government of national unity and not a government Mubarak, who still remains in power," he said. The criticisms of the former head of the UN nuclear agency were in line with those released on Thursday in a message in your own Twitter network, in which stated that "the transition period is key to the new Egypt, but so far it is opaque and exclusive.
" "We need to build a new home," said the lawyer of 68 years in the interview, it is so important to the transition period, because "we have to build with solid foundations." During this period, "there will be setbacks and mistakes safely, like a child learning to walk. In this situation we are learning the way we have to organize to make a radical change from a brutal regime to a democracy," he said .
He also said that should not be hastily convene elections, because only would benefit the political groups that already have a solid organization. "The silent majority who has never participated in a political process would then have an opportunity not just to express their views on representative elections," he said.
He had previously indicated in his Twitter that the repeal of the Emergency Law, in force since 1981, the right to form political parties and a year of transition are "prerequisites to holding free and fair." He also called the release "immediately" of all political prisoners in Egypt and expressed concern about the lack of independent media.
"Without a free media are no free elections," he said on Twitter. Political protests in Egypt began on 25 January and ended on February 11 with the resignation of Mubarak, who served as President of Egypt for three decades. The power it now holds the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which is committed to a process of transition of six months or until the authorities established that arise in parliamentary and presidential elections.
"We need a government of national unity and not a government Mubarak, who still remains in power," he said. The criticisms of the former head of the UN nuclear agency were in line with those released on Thursday in a message in your own Twitter network, in which stated that "the transition period is key to the new Egypt, but so far it is opaque and exclusive.
" "We need to build a new home," said the lawyer of 68 years in the interview, it is so important to the transition period, because "we have to build with solid foundations." During this period, "there will be setbacks and mistakes safely, like a child learning to walk. In this situation we are learning the way we have to organize to make a radical change from a brutal regime to a democracy," he said .
He also said that should not be hastily convene elections, because only would benefit the political groups that already have a solid organization. "The silent majority who has never participated in a political process would then have an opportunity not just to express their views on representative elections," he said.
He had previously indicated in his Twitter that the repeal of the Emergency Law, in force since 1981, the right to form political parties and a year of transition are "prerequisites to holding free and fair." He also called the release "immediately" of all political prisoners in Egypt and expressed concern about the lack of independent media.
"Without a free media are no free elections," he said on Twitter. Political protests in Egypt began on 25 January and ended on February 11 with the resignation of Mubarak, who served as President of Egypt for three decades. The power it now holds the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which is committed to a process of transition of six months or until the authorities established that arise in parliamentary and presidential elections.
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