Posted on 07/09/2012 2:59:14 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has reminded the president-elect, Mohamed Mursi, of its own powerful position in the country.
The military issued a statement saying it expects all state institutions to respect the constitution – a barely-disguised warning to the newly-elected Muslim Brotherhood member.
The move followed a decision by Mursi to revoke the military council's executive order which last month dissolved the Islamist-majority parliament. The dissolution had been backed by a June 14 Supreme Court ruling that said a third of the legislators were elected illegally.
On Monday, Egypt's highest court said that its rulings are binding for all state institutions, after Mursi decided to reconvene the dissolved parliament.
The decisions came one week after a meeting and photo ops between the president-elect and Egypt's SCAF council of generals, headed by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi.
In its warning, the military council defended the decree in which it had declared for itself sweeping new powers.
The “constitutional declaration” stated that the SCAF retains the power to make laws and budget decisions for Egypt until a new Constitution can be written – a task to be accomplished by summer's end – and until a new parliament can be elected. The Council also retained for itself the power to “decide all matters related to military affairs, including the appointment of its leaders.”
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The Egyptian Military will over throw islamic idiots in power if they push too hard. They have done it before.
Interesting. The Military Council is acting as their version of our Supreme Court. If Mursi’s anything like 0bama, he’ll ignore them.
muzzie Food Fight!
That’s the Kemal Ataturk model, vulnerable to ideological infiltration of the military, but it’s the only thing that even sometimes works around here.
Is that why they’re flinging horse turds at each other?
I wonder...did the Egyptian military use the billions we send them each year to learn how to kill people “real good”? It should be interesting.
Popcorn?
I said, in this forum, as soon as the “Arab Spring” protests were over in Cairo and the military helped remove Mubarak and elections were yet to be held - what really remained in question was not if the Muslim Brotherhood and the Military would divide and share the power, but simply that they had not them worked out about how they would do that and what it would look like
that is the only real political dance - regardless of public perceptions, or the election process - that has been playing out in Egypt and one that is not finished yet
even after it is, tensions between the two will continue
others had to be allowed a public voice from the start, but there was no question who held most of the institutional power cards, and who held the largest organized popularity cards - the only issues were how much power would the MB demand the military give up, and how much would they give up; I never questioned that the military would demand that they still had their own seat in some form - at power-central
the only secular Egyptians that can hold onto some personal hope are those who are in or are beneficiaries of the Egyptian military (a large economic presence on its own)
true “opposition” Egyptian secularists as well as Egyptian Coptic Christians might as well look abroad for a real democracy to raise their children in
these are just my guesses
You’re right. Morsi simply ignored military and called Partliament into session.
They have met. Military can pound sand.
It all swings on Hillary threated to cut off the $ tap IF Egypt does not give Morsi absolute power.
I bet some freedom lovers in Egypt, those who wish to preserve the Pyramids and Sphinx (instead of Islamists destroying them like they did the ancient massive Buddha sculptures in Afghanistan), are echoing Rev Wright with his “G D the United States.”
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