PRO-MORSI BLOC URGES BOYCOTT OF EGYPT’S ELECTIONS

The main support bloc of ousted president Mohamed Morsi has urged Egyptians to boycott the upcoming presidential elections, due next month, describing the vote as a “farce.” “We would boycott the big, absurd show and we call on all Egyptians, inside the country and abroad, to boycott [it],” the National Alliance for the Defence of Legitimacy said in a statement on 27 April. “We would not participate in a farce to pave the way for a full-fledged crime,” added the bloc, made up mainly of Islamist forces which denounce Morsi’s ouster by the army last July as a military coup.