Egypt - Brotherhood Reaches No Consensus on Candidate - NYTimes.com Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood met Tuesday to decide whether the group should field its own candidate for president, a proposition that would require the Islamist group to abandon a pledge to back an outside candidate. But the meeting broke up late Tuesday without reaching a consensus, said Mahmoud Hussein, the Brotherhood's secretary general. A decision by the Brotherhood, Egypt's most popular political organization, to run its own candidate could upend the presidential race, which is scheduled to begin in May. Mr. Hussein said the group would reconvene next Tuesday.