Ahmed Hassan - Cairo
The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ashraf Abdul Ghaffar, launched an initiative called "the last call" to heal the rift and resolve the internal division that the group has been witnessing for years.
The Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928, faces internal disputes, culminating in the formation of two different entities, each with its own spokesman and information platforms, in addition to the continued issuance of counter-statements between the group's leaders and executive offices.
"His initiative came after deep thought and a sense of responsibility towards the nation, recognizing that what was built in years to serve Islam is not right to be demolished or exceeded or not pursued for it," Abdul Ghaffar said in a statement broadcast on YouTube.
He pointed out that the initiative came after lengthy discussions and demands from the "Brothers of Karam", pointing out that he will communicate with people to resolve the crisis, without naming them.
He stressed that "there is no room now to rediscover the differences or dialogue within the group, who was right and who was otherwise, and there is no room to address aborting the initiative."
The internal crisis of the public emerged clearly in May 2015 against the backdrop of divergent views on the legitimacy of the new leadership and the strategy to counter the military coup led by current President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on July 3, 2013, when he was defense minister, Mursi, who was the first elected civilian president of Egypt in modern times.
The differences erupted after the acting Chargé d'Affaires Mahmoud Ezzat, through the year 2015, issued a number of decisions to isolate and exempt leaders, including members of the Guidance Bureau and others in the Second Higher Administrative Committee, with the formation of a new administrative committee. He is then known as the Office of Crisis Management Abroad.