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Egyptian Opposition Groups Try to Block Mubarak Run (Ursula Lindsey, 27 October 2004, VOA News)

A coalition of opposition groups in Egypt has launched a campaign to keep President Hosni Mubarak from seeking a fifth term in office next year.

The newly formed People's Campaign for Change is gathering signatures on a petition to prevent President Hosni Mubarak from seeking re-election.

About 700 professors, lawyers, journalists, human rights activists and politicians have signed the statement, as well as 30 opposition members of parliament. Twenty-six organizations, including the Communist Party, the Labor Party and the banned, but tolerated, Muslim Brotherhood group have also endorsed it.

Farid Hassanein, a former member of Parliament and one of the signatories of the statement, says the campaign has gained unprecedented support from a wide spectrum of opposition groups.