Opposition Leader Mohamed ElBaradei Speaks To CNN’s Fareed Zakaria About Egypt’s Transition

This weekend, Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei spoke with Fareed Zakaria about a number of topics pertaining to the ongoing uprising in Egypt, including what the immediate future will hold for the Egyptian government and for the country’s current president, Hosni Mubarak.

Zakaria asked who will be the next in line to oversee the government, given that the speaker is next in line to take over, not the vice president.

Said ElBaradei:

I think what I’m calling for, Fareed, is a presidential council of three people, with… Suleiman or somebody from the army would be one member; the other should be civilian. A year of transition or a government of national unity, of caretaker government that prepares properly for free and fair election. I think any election in the next coming of months before the right people establish parties and engage, it will be again a fake… fake democracy.

And on the Muslim Brotherhood – one group that stands to take the reins should there indeed be a change in government – ElBaradei says he is in “listening mode,” noting that the “the process is very opaque right now.”

Watch the segment, courtesy of CNN:

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