Sisi says if elected there will be no Brotherhood in Egypt

A picture taken on February 13, 2014 shows Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow. By Maxim Shemetov (AFP/File)

Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Monday the Muslim Brotherhood movement of deposed leader Mohamed Morsi was finished in Egypt and would not return if he was elected.

Following the Sisi-led army ouster of Morsi in July, the Brotherhood has been banned, its leaders arrested and more than 1,400 people, mostly Islamist backers of Morsi, killed in protest clashes.