Egypt’s Highest Court Says Parliament Must Dissolve
Source: New York Times
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The New York Times
Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- 10:47 AM EDT
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Egypts Highest Court Says Parliament Must Dissolve
Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled that the Islamist-led parliament must be immediately dissolved, while also blessing the right of Hosni Mubaraks last prime minister to run for president, escalating a battle for power between the remnants of the toppled order and rising Islamists.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/world/middleeast/new-political-showdown-in-egypt-as-court-invalidates-parliament.html?emc=na
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)this continues to get uglier and uglier.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Just watched coverage on our UK tv news. BBC have still only got it on their ticker.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)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
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)there may be a reaction against this.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)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/
muriel_volestrangler
(101,422 posts)You can't just appoint an assembly and say they're going to write the new constitution.
According to the BBC:
According to the official Mena news agency: "The constitutional court affirmed in the details of its verdict that the parliamentary elections were not constitutional, and the entire composition of parliament has been illegitimate since its election."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18439530
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.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)how they're going to write the new constitution by Friday.
edit - misread the CNN link : they will appoint the commission on Friday.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)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.
Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)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.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)They just stitched up their own population.
Southerner
(113 posts)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.
harun
(11,348 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)...we may be seeing Sarajevo 1914 Redux.
Uncle Joe
(58,584 posts)Thanks for the thread, Mira.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)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)
may3rd
(593 posts)out with the old
in with .... the older... ?
harun
(11,348 posts)Hypocrites
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)I wish they would vote for a nice liberal, modern secularist government. But that's up to them.
may3rd
(593 posts)IS it time to declare stolen election ?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)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