Khaled Alam El-Din, left, who was fired Sunday from his post as adviser to the Egyptian president for environmental affairs, consults with the Salafist Al-Nour party spokesman, Nader Bakkar during a televised press conference in Cairo, Egypt Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. Alam Eldin broke down in tears while denying he had abused his office and demanded an apology from President Mohammed Morsi calling the firing “political.” It is the latest sign of tension between Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist ally ahead of parliamentary elections expected in the coming months. (AP Photo/Mostafa El Shemy)