Mohamed ElBaradei Pulls Out of Egypt's Presidential Race CAIRO - Mohamed ElBaradei, a former top United Nations nuclear official and a Nobel Prize winner, said Saturday that he was pulling out of the presidential race in Egypt to protest the military's failure to put the country on the path to democracy. Mr. ElBaradei who has been seen as a driving force behind the movement that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down in February said in a statement that the conditions for a fair election were not in place. In Saturday's statement, Mr. ElBaradei said military rulers who took over from Mr. Mubarak have governed "as if no revolution took place and no regime has fallen." "My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework," he said, according to Reuters.