Mohamed ElBaradei criticized on Sunday president Mohamed Mursi's decision to reinstate the parliament and allow it to reconvene and continue its tasks.
In a tweet in English, ElBaradei wrote, "The executive decision to overrule the Constitutional Court is turning Egypt from a government of law into a government of men."
"The executive decision of reinstating the parliament is a waste of judicial authority, takes Egypt into a coma and means a struggle amongst authorities. May God help you, Egypt," ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and founder of the Constitution Party, wrote in a tweet in Arabic.
The Supreme Constitutional Court, the highest judicial authority in Egypt, ruled on June 14 that the parliamentary elections law is unconstitutional because it does not give equal chances to individual and partisan candidates to compete for individual seats which led to the parliament's dissolution.
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Mohamed ElBaradei wanted to be president of Egypt himself, but he discovered when he tried that the Egyptians saw him as a nobody. Now Mr. Elbaradei is turning himself into a sycophant by attacking Mr. Mursi, an elected and respected leader, in order to get himself some relevance in Egyptian politics.
Someone must remind Mr. Elbaradei that "The Rule of Law" in Egypt is not what the Mubarak appointed judges say, but what the people of Egypt said through the elections. The Mubarak corrupt regime has been wiped out by the people of Egypt, and his corruptly appointed Supreme Court judges must be replaced because they don't have any legitimacy in the new political order in Egypt. Until that is done, probably by a new law when the parliament convenes, the corrupt Mubarak appointees at the Egyptian Supreme Court cannot have the final world in what happens in Egypt; the people do, through their elected representatives.
On the meantime, Mr. Elbaradei, the Mr. Nobody of yesterday, won't become the Mr. Somebody of today with vitriolic attacks on Mr. Mursi. Sure Mr. Elbaradei hates Mr. Mursi for occupying the office he wanted to have, but spitting sour grapes at the new president of Egypt makes Mr. Elbaradei looking quite foolish and vindictive! It is time for Mr. Elbaradei to pick up his trashed political-aspirations ego and go home - to irrelevance! Nikos Retsos, retired professor