CAIRO- An Egyptian opposition figure has said that a decision by three major opposition parties to participate in the country's forthcoming legislative and presidential elections will "divide" opposition. "I am not pleased with the decision of the three parties," Osama el-Ghazli Harb, the leader of the nascent Democratic Front Party told the independent newspaper Al Masri Al Youm in remarks published on Tuesday.
Harb, whose party has already said it will boycott the elections, said the three parties were keen "not to anger" the ruling National Democratic Party.
The National Coalition for Change, led by former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, has been pushing for the boycott of the legislative and presidential elections due next October and in September 2011 respectively.
The pro-reform coalition says there are no guarantees that these elections will be fair
