Egypt`s president calls back dissolved parliament
Baku, July 9 (AZERTAC). Egypt`s newly-elected president announced Sunday that he`s overriding a military edict that dissolved the country`s elected parliament and he`s calling lawmakers back into session in defiance of the generals.
The move is likely to please President Mohamed Morsy`s backers in the Muslim Brotherhood, which won the largest share of seats in parliament in elections this year.
Late Sunday, a spokesman for parliament Speaker Mohamed Al Katatney said that no decision has been made yet on whether lawmakers will convene Monday. Earlier, in a statement issued to CNN, Al Katatney said he welcomed Morsy`s decision and that lawmakers would convene "within the coming hours."
Morsy`s move puts him at odds with constitutional experts and Egypt`s military, which assumed legislative power following a ruling by Egypt`s highest court that threw out the vote. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will hold an emergency meeting to discuss Morsy`s decision "and its repercussions," Lt. Col. Mohamed Askar, a council spokesman, said Sunday.
And Aly Hassan, a judicial consultant affiliated with the Justice Ministry, told CNN the order "will be met with objections from constitutional legal experts, and it may be the first test on the relations between Morsy and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces since Morsy took office."
Restoring parliament would take power away from generals who ran the country for more than 16 months after the 2011 revolution that ousted longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak. The Supreme Council asserted legislative authority in June, after Egypt`s Constitutional Court ruled that a third of lawmakers had been illegally elected and invalidated the election.
Presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said that under Sunday`s order, new parliamentary elections would be held two months after voters approve a new constitution. The Supreme Council announced in June that it expected a new constitution to be written within three months -- a decision the leaders of Egypt`s revolution protested extensively, calling it a limitation on presidential powers.
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