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Tuesday 4 December 2012 - 10:30

Egypt military playing along with Morsi, Muslim Brotherhoood: Analyst

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Egyptians protesters stage a sit-in protest against a decree by President Mohamed Morsi granting himself broad powers that shield his decisions from judicial review in Cairo’s landmark Liberation on December 1, 2012.
Egyptians protesters stage a sit-in protest against a decree by President Mohamed Morsi granting himself broad powers that shield his decisions from judicial review in Cairo’s landmark Liberation on December 1, 2012.
“The military gets something in the constitution and it has an incentive to play along with the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Eric Trager from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in an interview with USA Today on Sunday.

    He further argued that the new constitution will help military generals take control of the country’s budget and also it will pave the way for maintaining the peace treaty with Israel.


Referring to military representatives who assisted the country’s Constitutional Assembly to draft the document, the political expert said that military generals also supported Morsi after he retired 70 senior officers because of their inability to control violence in Sinai Peninsula which claimed the lives of Egyptian soldiers in August.

Under the new constitutional declaration, described by Morsi as temporary, all laws and decrees issued by Morsi are final and unchallengeable.

On November 22, Morsi signed a decree allowing him to “issue any decision or law that is final and not subject to appeal.” Since then, thousands of his opponents have converged on Liberation Square to protest against the decree and the speedy adoption of the draft constitution.

On Saturday, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Constituent Assembly presented the final draft of the constitution to Morsi after it finished the controversial draft on November 30. The president announced that a referendum on the new constitution will be held on December 15.

The opponents of the constitutional decree say they will hold another anti-Morsi demonstration on Tuesday.
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