Updated: July 28, 2012 6:18PM CAIRO — An alliance of pro-democracy advocates criticized Egypt's new Islamist president on Saturday for unilaterally choosing a prime minister with no track record, while leading without transparency and alienating political groups with liberal leanings. The National Front alliance — an umbrella group of democracy advocates, secularists and moderate Islamists behind the uprising that drove longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak from power last year — said Mohammed Morsi has reneged on campaign promises to form a national unity government. On Tuesday, Morsi surprised the country by choosing an unknown technocrat and former water minister, Hesham Kandil, as...
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