Breaking: MP Mortada Mansour to run for president 2018

CAIRO – 13 January 2018: Parliament member Mortada Mansour announced Saturday he will run for Egypt's 2018 presidential elections in March 2018.

During a phone interview on Sada al-Balad Channel, Mansour told TV host Ahmed Mousa on Ala Mas’oliety talk show that he will collect signatures of Parliament members to back his nomination on early Sunday, saying he will resort to citizens’ signatures in case he failed to meet the minimum number of MPs.