Salafists said that they will run in the forthcoming elections in support of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group.

During a meeting held Friday, April 1, 2011 under the title al-Da'wá al-Salafīyah (Salafist Call) in an attempt to clarify their position, Shaykh Yāsir Burhāmī, a leader of a salafist group in Alexandria, asserted the salafists would run in the next parliamentary elections to protect the sharī'ah.

Burhāmī called for activating the 2nd article of the Egyptian constitution, which reads "Islam is the religion of the state…Islamic jurisprudence is the principal source of legislation.