Egyptians vote on reform
March 21, 2011 00:00:00
CAIRO, Mar 20 (Reuters): Egyptians flocked to the polls Saturday for the first time since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled to vote in a referendum on political reform marred by an attack on presidential candidate Mohamed ElBaradei.
Youths pushed and hurled missiles at the former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog as he tried to vote in the constitutional referendum which will determine how quickly Egypt can hold elections.
"We don't want you, we don't want you," chanted the crowd of about 60, many of them teenagers.
"I went to vote with my family and I was attacked by organized thugs," ElBaradei wrote on Twitter. "Top figures of Mubarak's regime still at large and undermining the revolution," he said.