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Al-Zomor thanks Building and Development Party’s leaders for accepting resignation

Thursday 29-06-2017 - 09:42 PM

Khalid Fahmy

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Cairo – Tarek Al-Zomor, recently resigned head of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya’s political wing Building and Development Party, extended his thanks to the leaders of the party after they accepted his resignation.

In a statement posted on Wednesday on his Facebook official page, Al-Zomor sent thanks to the party’s members and leaders, who accepted the resignation on Tuesday. Al-Zomor tendered his resignation on Monday, June 26.

“The party’s political experience placed emphasis on giving priority for social justice and the necessity of defending national unity and protecting fabric of society,” he said.

Al-Zomor, 58, was re-elected head of the party in April for a four-year mandate, although he has been living in Qatar since the army’s 2013 overthrow of former Islamist President Mohammad Morsi, following enormous street protests against the latter’s divisive rule.

Tarek Al-Zomor

Early this month, Al-Zomor was placed on terror lists along with 58 other Islamists associated with Qatar. The lists were released by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain after they severed diplomatic ties with Qatar, on June 5, for supporting terrorism.

Al-Zomor, a staunch supporter of Morsi’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, is charged in Egypt in several cases related to terrorism and incitement to violence.

Tarek and his cousin Aboud Al-Zomor were convicted of planning the assassination of Egyptian late president Anwar Sadat in 1981, but Tarek was released in 2011 and fled to Qatar about two years later.

There have been growing calls in Egypt to dissolve the Building and Development Party.