Nasser, an ex-military officer, is fondly remembered as Egypt is bracing for presidential elections contested by only two contenders. Supporters of both ex-army chief Abdul Fattah Al Sissi and his leftist challenger Hamdeen Sabahi portray their favoured candidates as the new Nasser.
Source:
Gulf News
Publication date:
May 08 2014
More than four decades after his death, Egyptian nationalist leader Jamal Abdul Nasser is immensely popular in the country as the ‘man of the poor’ due to his socialist policies.
Since he deposed Islamist president Mohammad Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last July, Al Sissi has generated cultlike adulation unknown in Egypt since Nasser’s era. The ex-general is likened to Nasser with their portraits often raised together at pro-Al Sissi rallies.
“I am very happy to be compared to Jamal Abdul Nasser,” Al Sissi, 59, said in a TV interview this week. “I hope I’ll be like him.”
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