Egypt opposition warns elections may fuel tensions
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?Associated PressAn Egyptian Ultras activist chants anti-President Mohammed Morsi slogans while leading a rally during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
An Egyptian Ultras activist chants anti-President Mohammed Morsi slogans while leading a rally during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Female protesters chant anti-President Mohammed Morsi slogans in front of the main court house during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 file photo, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi?s supporters, background, clash with opponents, foreground, outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt. For most of the 85 years since its inception, the Muslim Brotherhood operated secretively as an outlawed group, working underground and often repressed by governments. But even after its political success since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the group is still suspected of carrying on secretive operations. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
Egyptian protesters block the road leading to the east port preventing loaded trucks from leaving the port, during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A banner with Arabic that reads "retribution for Port Said martyrs, they shot our brothers with bullets," and a poster with a picture of a slain man with his kids and reading in Arabic "the martyr of treachery, Mohammed Sami Sharan, may God count him as a martyr, January 26, 2013," are used to block the road. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
CAIRO (AP) ? An Egyptian opposition leader is warning the president's call for parliamentary elections in April will only inflame the country's political tensions.
Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the main opposition National Salvation Front, wrote on his Twitter account Friday that President Mohammed Morsi's "decision to go for parliamentary elections amidst severe societal polarization and eroding state authority is a recipe for disaster."
ElBaradei's group has already warned it would boycott the vote unless there are talks with the president aimed at real reconciliation. It has also said it will boycott if election laws written by the Islamist-led interim parliament favor Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood party.
The Brotherhood has consistently won at the ballot box since Egypt's uprising two years ago while the mostly secular and liberal opposition has trailed significantly behind.
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