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Thursday, January 14, 2010

New Muslim Brotherhood Guide Press Conference has Been Postponed.

UPDATE: I don't know if Al-Masry al-Youm really knows what's going on (it was they who called it for Bayumi; the MB has played the succession very close to the vest), but Muhammad Badi‘, the other candidate besides Bayumi to have made it into the finals, may be surging. Perhaps that's why the postponement.

The election of the new Supreme Guide (or General Guide) of the Muslim Brotherhood is pending, but a press conference scheduled for today has now been postponed to Saturday. It's not clear why but there may be some disagreements. Most of the buzz is that it will be Rashad al-Bayumi. He is awaiting final approval by the Guidance Council, apparently, though his Wikipedia stub lists him as Guide already.

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