"There has been interference in media and issues related to the electoral process, as well as arrests of many youth [activists]," Sawiris, who supported the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, told ONTV anchor Youssef El-Husseini on Monday.
Sawiris said that "those kinds of policies make the regime lose friends especially that President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi is popular enough and there is no need for such actions to secure his ruling."
The Free Egyptians Party, which was co-founded by Sawiris in 2011 after the uprising against Mubarak, won 65 seats in the recent parliamentary elections, giving it the largest share of seats by a political party in the legislature.
The liberal party refused to join the parliamentary bloc "In Support of Egypt", which is led by the former inteligence Sameh Seif El-Yazal and announced repeatedly it would solidly support the policies of El-Sisi.
" For the Love – the precursor of In Support of Egypt – would kill the democratic process in Egypt,” Sawiris told private newspaper Youm 7 last month, describing the members of the formation as “sheep being led by a Supreme Guide just like the Muslim Brotherhood.”
He reiterated on Monday to El-Husseini that his party "would not join the bloc in order not to be [controlled] by any power in the parliament."
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