Ahmed Shafiq claims that the presidential election was 'rigged' Former Egyptian presidential candidate, Ahmed Shafiq, who suffered a narrow defeat to current President Mohammed Morsi has claimed that Morsi will be tried for killing dozens of peaceful protesters since the beginning of his rule .
Speaking in a TV interview with al-Qahera Wal Nas TV, Shafiq said that he is certain Morsi "will one day be tried in the way [ousted president] Hosni Mubarak is being tried now."
Shafiq also accused the Muslim Brotherhood group of corruption, adding, "most of the Brotherhood leaders have become very wealthy after the January 2011 revolution and this issue needs to be investigated."
Shafiq said he has full confidence in Egyptian to revolt against the Brotherhood rule represented in President Morsi, calling on groups demonstrating on January 25 to make an early presidential election their primary demand, "so that the current president can prove he won with a true majority."
Shafiq, who served as Civil Aviation Minister under Mubarak and was also his last prime minister, has reiterated his claim that June's presidential run-off was rigged.
The former air force commander won 48 percent of the vote, and left the country for Abu Dhabi after his defeat. He has been charged, in absentia, of financial corruption related to army-owned lands which authorities claim he sold to Mubarak's sons, Alaa and Gamal at extremely favourable prices.
Criticising the economic policies of President Morsi, Shafiq said he was proud to have resigned as prime minister in March with $36 billion in central bank's foreign reserves - more than double of the current reservation after seven months of President Morsi's rule.
Shafiq also condemned the Brotherhood's attack on Egypt's Constitutional Court in December, when thousands of Brotherhood supporters besieged the court's headquarters preventing the judges from issuing a verdict that was expected to dismantle the Islamist-dominated Shura Council [the upper house of the Egyptian parliament]. "Seeing the highest court in Egypt treated in that way was sad, and I hope it will not happen again," Shafiq said.
Opposition groups are planning to commemorate the January 25 revolution on Friday, by holding mass demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood in Tahrir Square and in front of the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace.
The protesters are expected to reject the recently agreed constitution, which was drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly. They are also calling for the current cabinet to be dismissed and replaced with one capable of guaranteeing social justice to the poor.