Egypt’s Highest Court Says Parliament Must Dissolve

this continues to get uglier and uglier.

Just watched coverage on our UK tv news. BBC have still only got it on their ticker.

military in complete control...


The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, in control of the country since Mubarak's ouster, announced that it now has full legislative power and will announce a 100-person assembly that will write the country's new constitution by Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/14/world/meast/egypt-ruling/index.html

there may be a reaction against this.

CAIRO, June 14 (UPI) -- Protests erupted Thursday after Egypt's High Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a law used to elect about a third of the country's Parliament.

Gates surrounding the court in Cairo were locked and citizens were locked inside, Ahram Online reported. Iron barricades used to limit the number of cars and people near blocked area were closed completely.

The ruling on the country's Political Disenfranchisement Law voided the seats reserved for individual candidacies because those races relied on that law. It left in place a runoff Saturday and Sunday between Mohamed Morsi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, and Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahram Online said.

The decision, which dissolves the first freely elected Parliament in Egypt in decades, further fueled tensions between court, which positions itself as a check on Islamists' power, and the once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.


Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/06/14/Egypt-election-law-ruling-spawns-protests/UPI-71751339679581/#ixzz1xmpLXbji

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/06/14/Egypt-election-law-ruling-spawns-protests/UPI-71751339679581/

You can't just appoint an assembly and say they're going to write the new constitution.

According to the BBC:



OK, so they've decided that it wasn't 'fair'. Then hold a new election with a consistent system. The military takeover of the parliament and constitutional process just shows this was a sham decision.

how they're going to write the new constitution by Friday.

edit - misread the CNN link : they will appoint the commission on Friday.

things are really not looking so great for Egypt.

You see the whole point of overthrowing your despotic regime is to replace it with something better, not simply a different flavor of the same thing.

If these guys are crazy than I am kinda glad they did it, but democracy can't stand with the military taking control all the time.

They just stitched up their own population.

Just a guess but I think this whole recent episode is quietly supported by our government. We don't want an extremist muslim party ruling parliament there and neither does the Egyptian military. They'll keep doing this until a popular moderate candidate comes along.

...we may be seeing Sarajevo 1914 Redux.

Thanks for the thread, Mira.

Egyptian boy peers out of barbed wire, his face painted with the number 25, the date of the Egyptian revolution, during a protest in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo June 14, 2012. (AP Photo)

out with the old


in with .... the older... ?

Hypocrites

I wish they would vote for a nice liberal, modern secularist government. But that's up to them.

IS it time to declare stolen election ?

The Muslim Brotherhood has warned that Egypt's fragile democratic gains are under threat, after a surprise court ruling overturned last year's parliamentary elections.

Egypt could see "dangerous" days ahead if power is returned to those linked to the previous regime, it said.

The group's candidate, Mohammed Mursi, faces ex-PM Ahmed Shafiq in a runoff presidential election this weekend.

The decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday plunged Egypt into turmoil.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18453721