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Egyptian forces clashed with the demonstrators who had poured into the streets of Cairo on Friday to stage a million-man march against the country’s military rulers.

The protesters returned to the capital’s landmark Liberation Square to condemn the killing of the demonstrators by pro-military thugs and to call on the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) to step down.

The rally was called by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood less than three weeks ahead of the country’s first presidential election after the ouster of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s two main presidential hopefuls had announced a temporary pause in their campaigns to mourn for over 20 anti-junta protesters killed in Cairo’s Abbassiya district on Wednesday.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mohamed Ghanem, Muslim Brotherhood envoy in the UK, to share his opinion on this issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Tell me, given the situation that we have been seeing in the reports from last week and the disqualification and then requalification of certain candidates, how optimistic are you about the upcoming elections. Will they be fair?

Ghanem: We are facing a lot of things happening in Egypt at the moment. Things are not as smooth as someone would love to be but the thing about this election is that it is the first election for years, maybe 60 years, we expect it to be transparent and free and ….

[Regarding] The figures, as your report say the two front runners, it is too early to appoint the front runner. For me for example the [dissatisfaction] of the Article 28 and all this confusion about the military council not to leave, to hand the power make the situation uneasy but still the political bodies or institutions have a common agreement to proceed toward the election.

For us as the Muslim Brotherhood we appointed Dr. Mohamed Morsi and for anybody who underestimates the support of Gama’at al-Ikhwan to Mohamed Morsi he would be wrong. We are a democratic body and democratic institution. We have a political party and that political party put forward Dr. Mohamed Morsi and I think he will be a significant figure within these elections.

Press TV: Mr. Ghanem your take on what Mr. Abdullah [the other guest of the program] has just said, our expansion of what he has said. Do you feel that there are other entities from outside of the country whose hands you can see in creating this type of insecurity in your country?

Ghanem: Well there is a lot of entity, indigenous in our entity from outside but taking for what my friend said, the only authority which can delay the election is the army council and the army council at the moment is in the border of the support and they cannot take the risk for such a decision. Then putting the faith of the army as they said, they are not going to delay it.

Then we will go forward as they said and we look forward to having the election or assuming that the election will happen as they have decided in the day.

But what is happening now; it is the remnant of the regime because when the revolution came we took the head of the structure, Mubarak and his family, but a lot of the remained structure, the loyal to him which actually were beneficiary of the system, they are still in power, they are still operating in a very sensitive area which they have a lot of money and a lot of authority and they hate the progress of the revolution.

And when you say the revolution I do not mean the revolution just getting of the Mubarak but having a revolution of leading the country, changing the whole structure, the attitude and the policy of running the country.

Press TV: So how do you get rid of those remnants Mr. Ghanem that you just talked about? You said that basically the head has been changed but the body more or less is still intact from the former regime. So how do you get rid of the remnants of the former regime?

Ghanem: By giving the power to the new people. We have seen the parliament elected by the people is real, is nearly disable to take any decision. The government which has been appointed by the military council refuses to be dissolved.

Press TV: Mr. Ghanem if you are saying that the only way to get rid of the remnants of the former regime is actually to put this in the hands of the people and then we have the military council not stepping down; they are making decisions and obviously it appears to be against what the Egyptian people are demanding, then how will this come about? Are you confident that the military council will step aside after the election?

Ghanem: Well I am confident that the power is going to be removed, from the head of the power, from the military council through an elected president. But that does not mean the army or the army council will leave the political entity.

No, because we know there is two type of power– the legal power which you can give any person and the real power which the army or the police, the ones who have the gun to push you and practice the law have.

The army actually has a legal power and has the real power and nobody can take it out of the army unless the army himself gives up the power to somebody else.

Press TV: Mr. Ghanem, final comments. Your take on what Mr. Abdullah has said.

Ghanem: Yes we will just put the faith in the army and we hope that he will protect the authority of the people and hand the power to the new president and the new president whoever the constitution will give him the position between him and the parliament and the government and the balance of power would be adequate enough to pull Egypt out and forward.

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