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                  Egypt's ElBaradei Calls for Election Boycott

   A top Egyptian opposition figure has called for a boycott of the
   upcoming parliamentary elections.
   Mohamed ElBaradei said Saturday he refuses to take part in the election
   called by Islamist President Mohamed Morsi earlier this week.
   ElBaradei described the poll as "an act of deception." Islamists have
   managed to win every election since the ouster of former president
   Hosni Mubarak.
   ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear agency chief, noted on his Twitter
   account he had called for a similar boycott of polls in 2010 under Mr.
   Mubarak, who was ousted the following year.
   Other opposition leaders have not yet said whether they agree with
   ElBaradei`s call.
   President Morsi has called for parliamentary elections to start on
   April 27.
   The voting will take place in four stages across a country deeply
   divided between the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood party that has ruled
   since the ouster of Mr. Mubarak and the more secularist opposition.
   The voting will end in late June with the parliament scheduled to hold
   its first meeting on July 6.
   It will be Egypt`s first election since an Islamist-backed constitution
   was adopted in December. Critics say the constitution - drafted without
   opposition input and approved in a hastily organized referendum - fails
   to provide adequate human rights protections and fails to curb the
   power of the military establishment.
   Violent protests have rocked Egypt for months.
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