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Press TV
Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement has endorsed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi in the country’s runoff election.

The movement announced on Tuesday its backing for Mohamed Morsi, who has already won the support of his rival in the first round, former Muslim Brotherhood member Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh.

The group has asked Morsi to appoint former presidential candidates Aboul Fotouh and Hamdeen Sabbahi, a former parliament member, as his deputies.

It has also proposed the appointment of former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei as prime minister.

The youth movement also urged Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court to disqualify Ahmed Shafiq, the last premier under ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, from the country’s first-ever presidential race.

The call was made based on a parliamentary law, namely the Political Disenfranchisement Law, which bans former regime members from holding political office.

The bill is being examined by the court in question and a verdict is expected on June 14, just ahead of the two-day runoff election over the weekend.

Morsi has won 78 percent of the country’s expatriate votes which was held in 55 countries, far ahead of Shafiq.

Popular support for the MB candidate soared after he joined the public in their protests against Mubarak’s life sentence he was handed earlier this month for the killing of protesters last year.

Shafiq, on the contrary, caused an outrage among the Egyptians after he supported the ‘lenient’ sentence for Mubarak, saying the verdict must be accepted.