CAIRO, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Vandals in northwest Egypt tore down posters lobbying for a presidential bid for the politician son of President Hosni Mubarak, campaign organizers said.
Mubarak assumed the presidency in 1981 following the assassination of Anwar Sadat. The 82-year-old president hasn't made his intentions regarding a 2011 bid for re-election known publicly.
Cairo spent late July deflecting claims that the Egyptian president's health was failing. Mubarak had his gall bladder removed earlier this year.
He was rumored to be grooming his son Gamal to take over as head of state.
Activists from the Gamal Mubarak Support Campaign said vandals torn down campaign posters in northwest Egypt during a signature drive, Egyptian newspaper al-Masry al-Youm reports. UPI
