CAIRO - Mohammed ElBaradei called for a campaign of civil disobedience against the regime of the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and a boycott of the next year presidential election, signaling one attempt to revive his mark reform campaign.
In a 12-minute video address late Wednesday evening Mr. ElBaradei's Facebook page published the former International Atomic Energy Agency Chief criticizes Mr. Mubarak's Government and said it faced "one last chance to check, and restart the process of democratic reform."
He warned that any crackdown on its civil disobedience push would lead to violence.
The call comes only days after the general elections of that were dominated by the ruling National Democratic Party. Opposition candidates claimed amounted to intimidation and widespread. NDP officials said, fraud seriously impact enough to the survey results.
Mr. ElBaradei who has spent much of his career of the country to the IAEA, returned back to Egypt in February to a hero's welcome. Followers had hoped his entrance in the political scene of the country's marginalized opposition forces would zinc coating. Quickly he took the banner of the constitutional and electoral reform suggesting he would run for President if the pitch was level.
But his group seemed National Association for change amid criticism to shake that Mr. ElBaradei refused, really the cause commit themselves and spent more than half of his time abroad. Mr. ElBaradei said he doesn't want to be regarded as Saviors and views of the country itself as a symbol for change and no political leader.
His frequent calls for a mass boycott of the recent parliamentary elections were including the prohibited by Egypt opposition, but powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the weak but historically influential Wafd party ignored. In October the brotherhood said part in the polls, Mr exclude ElBaradei would last. Since then he has kept largely, a low public profile so far.
The brotherhood and the Wafd party ended up withdrawal from the second round was the parliamentary vote in protest against what they claimed pervasive strong arm tactics and vote fill by the regime. The elections produced a crushing victory for the ruling NDP to win the spots in the House of Commons 508 seat with only 14 the opposition candidates. Brotherhood associated independent went from 88 seats to 0 (zero).
Mr Mubarak, 82 years old, has recently tightened his grip on power. He stands before presidential elections next fall and has not yet indicated whether he runs for a sixth of six-year period.
Mr. ElBaradei, in his video released the elections as "Farce" and called it "the straw that brought the crowded." "The regime seems not able and is unwilling to understand that the continuation of the current situation is impossible."
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