New Egyptian petition: Run, General, run

September 16, 2013 at 2:54p.m.

CAIRO (AP) - A group of Egyptian professionals, lawyers and ex-army officers today launched a campaign to collect signatures urging the country’s military chief to run for president, just two months after he ousted the first elected leader. Organizer Rifai Nasrallah, a judge, said the goal of the petition titled “complete your good deed” is to make Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi give in to popular will and run for president, by collecting more than 30 million signatures around Egypt.