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3. Copts to field 50 parliamentary candidates on liberal lists to compete Islamists

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
39
Article number: 
3
Article pages: 
1
Date of source: 
September 24, 2011
Author: 
Sharīf al-Dawakhlī
Reviewer: 
Diana Maher Ghali
Article summary: 

Dr. Shirīf Dūs, president of the General Coptic Association, is intending to hold talks with presidents of liberal and leftist political parties to form a coalition in the next parliament elections to compete with Islamists.

Dr. Ihāb Ramzī, lawyer and Coptic activist, is estimating that 50 Coptic candidates will run in the elections.

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In Rose al-Yūsuf, page 1, September 25, 2011, Dūs announced establishing the General Coptic Association and states his personal support for Presidential Hopeful and defected Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member, Dr. 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh.

Dūs added that the Association is not by any means associated with the church.

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