The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) had contacts with parties, revolutionary coalitions and the coordinators of the campaigns of Sabbāhī, disqualified candidate Hāzim Abū Ismā’īl and ‘Abd al-Mun’im Abū al-Futūh in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag on Saturday (May 26) to urge them to back Mursī in the runoff round.

“These groups showed good signs that they are going to support Mursī,” said Muhammad al-Misrī, the FJP secretary in Sohag.

Misrī added that he will have contacts with prominent church figures in Sohag, including Metropolitan Bakhūm, who, he said, would show readiness to bring Copts together behind Mursī. [Muhammad ‘Abd al-Majīd, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, May 28, p. 5] Read original text in Arabic