Military
vs Morsi: Power clash over parliament
Egypt's
President Mohammed Morsi has ordered the country's parliament to
return almost a month after a Supreme Court ruling dismissed it.
RT,
8
July, 2012
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.
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