Egypt's ElBaradei pulls out of presidential race
Reform leader says move to protest military rulers
Egyptian pro-democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog agency and Egypt's reformist leader, is shown during a press conference in Cairo in February 2011. ElBaradei said Saturday he is pulling out of the Egyptian presidential race. (Amr Nabil/Associated Press)
Egypt's reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei says he is pulling out of the presidential race to protest the military's failure to put the country on the path to democracy.
The Nobel laureate who has been seen as a driving force behind the movement that forced former President Hosni Mubarak to step down says the conditions for a fair election are not in place.
In Saturday's statement, ElBaradei says the military rulers who took over from Mubarak have governed "as if no revolution took place and no regime has fallen."
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