The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood has accepted the decision of the Constitutional Court to dissolve the parliament and confirm the eligibility of his electoral rival .
On Friday, 26 Khordad (June 15), Mohammad Morsi, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group in the presidential election, said that he accepts the Constitutional Court’s decision to dissolve the parliament and approve his electoral rival, but warned that if the presidential elections are not held in a fair manner, a second revolution will occur in Egypt“
The second phase of the Egyptian presidential election is scheduled to be held on Saturday and Sunday, and Mr. Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, the former prime minister of Egypt, who in the first phase of the election are the most You won RARA, they are the only candidates of this stage This action of the military, which is designed in line with the goals of the Zionists and to defeat the Egyptian revolution, tries to have the last word for the military in the scene. stabilize Egypt’s politics.
Mr. Morsi’s statements are published a day after the Constitutional Court of Egypt declared the parliamentary elections held in January as illegal and dissolved the parliament, and at the same time confirmed the competence of Mr. Shafiq .
Ahmad Shafiq, who is seventy-one years old, is mentioned as a representative of secular groups in the second phase of the presidential election .
Mr. Shafiq was one of the high-ranking commanders of the Egyptian Air Force and one of the officers who participated in the October 1973 war against Israel. In the 1990s, he held the position of the Ministry of Aviation in the cabinet of Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president .
During the protest movement against Hosni Mubarak’s government, he was appointed to the position of Prime Minister at the end of January last year and less than two weeks before the resignation of Hosni Mubarak, and he held this position for about a month until the beginning of March .
Ahmed Shafiq’s electoral program relies on strengthening security, establishing law and order, supporting the rights of all Egyptians, including religious minorities, and refraining from exploiting religion to advance political goals. He is named as the secular candidate of the second stage of the election
The Constitutional Court has confirmed Shafiq’s right to compete in elections
After the fall of Hosni Mubarak, after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the representatives of the first Egyptian parliament barred all the senior officials of Mr. Mubarak’s government, including Ahmed Shafiq, from competing in the presidential elections. allowed him to participate in the elections.
After the announcement of the decision of the presidential election committee, a group of opponents of Mr. Shafiq filed a complaint against this decision to the Constitutional Court, but yesterday, the court rejected this complaint and confirmed the opinion of the committee .
With the publication of the decision of the Constitutional Court confirming the candidacy of Ahmad Shafiq and at the same time declaring the parliamentary elections illegal, supporters of Islamist groups started demonstrations and considered this decision a sign of the “return of the former regime” .
Also, a number of activists of non-religious political groups, including leftists, described the decision of the Constitutional Court as an attempt to ignore the will of the people and the achievements of the anti-dictatorship revolution and called it a “coup” .
The ruling of the Constitutional Court and political works
According to the Constitutional Court, the way Egypt’s parliamentary elections were held was not “fair”.
The judges of the Constitutional Court in their decision regarding the nomination of Ahmad Shafiq declared that the “Political Exclusion Law” has no legal validity because the officials of the former government, without being prosecuted and convicted, deprived them of one of the basic rights of citizens, namely the right to participate. Deprives in political affairs.
In the session of the Constitutional Court on Thursday, the opinion of the judges was also issued regarding the decision of a lower court regarding the parliamentary elections in Egypt .
After hearing the complaint of a group of independent candidates in the parliamentary elections in January, the court of first instance ruled that the way the parliamentary elections were held was contrary to the electoral laws and the principle of “fairness of elections” and the result was unacceptable .
According to Egypt’s electoral regulations, two-thirds of the lower house seats are awarded to party candidates based on the party list, and the competition for the remaining seats is reserved for independent and non-party candidates .
In the decision of the Constitutional Court, it is stated that a number of parties, in addition to introducing candidates for the party list, entered candidates as independent candidates in the election contests and used their organizational facilities to support them, and in this way, the candidates Independently, they did not have an equal and “fair” opportunity to compete in the elections.
In the Egyptian parliamentary elections, the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist group, which had effective organizational facilities, was able to take over 45% of the seats in the parliament, while the more extreme Islamist groups, including the Salafis, took 25% of the seats. assigned
The approval of Shafiq’s candidacy and the order to dissolve the parliament led to protests
The decision of the Constitutional Court to dissolve the parliament deprives the Muslim Brotherhood of an important part of the political achievements of this group in the period after Hosni Mubarak .
The dissolution of the parliament, in turn, leads to the emergence of other political problems, the most important of which is the further delay in the process of drafting and approving the draft of the new constitution, which should define and determine the political institutions, the limits of their powers and their relations with each other .
After the announcement of the results of the parliamentary elections, the Egyptian parliament formed a commission to draft the constitution, which was dominated by Islamists .
For this reason, the secular representatives, who were worried that this delegation, by approving a constitution based on Sharia, would limit individual and civil liberties and prevent the consolidation of democracy in Egypt, boycotted the participation in the delegation and caused the issuance of It was ordered to be dissolved by the Military Council ruling Egypt.
Egypt’s presidential elections are held while this country practically does not have a current constitution, and as a result, the limits of the president’s powers are not clear .
Some opponents of the Supreme Military Council have said that the dissolution of the parliament and the vagueness of the president’s powers have created conditions that the military, even with the “formal” delegation of power to the future president, will still be able to maintain their superior position in the political scene .
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