By Hussein Qabani
CAIRO (AA) – The chief of Egypt's state-run auditing agency on Wednesday turned down a proposal that he head up an Egyptian "government-in-exile" committed to reversing the army's July 3 ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi.
"I would like to extend my thanks to those who nominated me to head the [proposed] government-in-exile, but I had not thought of taking such a step," Hisham Gneina, head of Egypt's Central Auditing Organization (CAO), told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.
Egyptian scholar Mohamed al-Jawadi, who has close ties with the pro-democracy National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, recently proposed the formation of a government-in-exile to oppose this summer's "military coup" against Morsi.
Al-Jawadi went on to table Gneina's name as a possible head of the proposed body.
Gneina, however, who was appointed CAO chief by Morsi during the latter's single year in office, says he doesn't want to engage in politics.
"I do my job at the CAO and I'm keen on keeping the organization out of politics," he said.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, was removed from office by the military on July 3 following mass demonstrations against his presidency.
The unconstitutional change of government is described by Morsi's supporters as a military coup, while opponents hail it as a military-backed "popular uprising."
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