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Military vs Morsi: Power clash over parliament

Published time: July 08, 2012 19:31
Edited time: July 08, 2012 23:31
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has ordered the country's parliament to return almost a month after a Supreme Court ruling dismissed it. The military council has called an emergency meeting to discuss the president's move.

­Morsi's surprise decision puts him at odds with the top military officials who enforced parliament's dissolution after the Supreme Court found that a third of the parliament's members were illegally elected.

The court declared that the Political Disenfranchisement Law governing elections was unconstitutional. The law concerns some provisions of electoral law regulating how political parties are able to contest parliamentary seats using independent candidates. The high court determined that the law discriminated against truly independent candidates.

The majority of the seats in the dissolved parliament belong to the Muslim Brotherhood. Until recently, Morsi had also been a member of this Islamist party, but he announced his resignation shortly after winning the presidential election.

The power struggle over parliament showcases the recent political dynamics in Egypt, where the military is trying to cling to power since former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in January 2011.

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has yet to comment on the newly elected president's decree.

Morsi won the presidency in a runoff that took place on June 16-17. However, it took the election commission another week to announce the election's results.

During the week-long vote count, tens of thousands of Morsi supporters took to Tahrir Square in Cairo to support their candidate and to protest prolonged military rule.

Comments (5)

A.Smith (unregistered) 09.07.2012 10:33

I'd be surprised if the USA/Israeli CIA/Mossad didn't assassinate the new Egyptian President Morsi in his first year in office.

Alrea dy President Morsi has pointed out the insane injustice of the life sentence on the Blind Muslim cleric who openly condemned the Zionists in NYC and now is directly challenging the Zionist bribed and bought Egyptian puppet Generals who allegedly under orders from the USA State Department and the Zionists leading Apartheid Israel had dissolved the Islamic democratically elected government last week.

Apparen tly USA/Israel torpedo's any democracy which isn't utterly corrupt such as the Iranian Democracy in the 1950's and now the new Egyptian Democracy. Egyptians have every right to echo their elected parliment in finding Apartheid Israel is the #1 enemy of Egypt and to come to the aid of the Syrian Gov. as well as stand by Syria, Iran if attacked by Apartheid Israel.

With Egypt on Apartheid Israel's third flank, Egypt's powerful nation could be a deciding factor on pushing Apartheid Israel to ramp down it's rabid insane rush to WW3 on the Derra, Syria Plains of Armageddon where some Satanically evil people behind the so-called Syrian uprising was started in some crass attempt to manifest the Christian revelation prophecy.

Syr ia's Assad should issue the order to his ballistic missile commanders to load Syria's Chemical and Biological Warheads onto their Syrian Ballistic missiles targeting Apartheid Israel to immediately launch IF any attempt is made to assassinate Assad, Assad's wife or if USA/Israel/NATO attacks Syria, impacting every square mile of Apartheid Israel with VX nerve agents and biological agents making the Satanically evil Zionists leading Apartheid Israel realise they'll pay an extremely high price for attacking Syria and attempting to murder Assad.

+13

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DennisFRA (unregistered) 09.07.2012 06:27

Well, thats what nation building is about!
Kick them goddam Puppets out!
Bette than my breakfast coffee.

+5

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StG 44 09.07.2012 01:08

Next step: invade and crush the zionist entity and become a savior to millions around the world suffocating under its henchmen.

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