ElBaradei won't run for presidency
The ex-head of the UN nuclear watchdog and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said yesterday he would not run for the Egyptian presidency, saying there is still no real democracy in the country.
"My conscience does not allow me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless there is real democracy," ElBaradei said in a statement received by AFP.
He praised the revolutionary youths who led massive popular uprisings that ousted president Hosni Mubarak last year but said "the former regime did not fall."
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