Egypt: President Mursi Assumes Sweeping Powers

Just five months after being sworn in as President, Egypt's leader, Mohamed Morsi, has made his most polarising decision to date. He's issued a ... ( Resource: Egyptian President Assumes Sweeping New Powers

Cairo — Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has issued a declaration preventing anyone from challenging his decrees, laws and decisions.

This means that no court can dissolve the constituent assembly, which is drawing up a new constitution.

President Mursi has also sacked his chief prosecutor and ordered the re-trial of officers accused of attacking protesters under Hosni Mubarak.

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  • ras sideeq
    Nov 23 2012, 10:34

    IT SEEMS BY BROTHERS IN CAIRO ARE FALLING ASLEEP!!! DID YOU NOT ELECT THIS PRESIDENT TO DO RIGHTFOR THE NATION??? WELL HOW CAN HE PROGESS IF THE OLD REGIME IS STILL IN POWER WORKING TO UNDERMINE THE REVOLUTION??? THE PRESIDENT IS ELECT OF THE PEOPLE THE NEW CONSTITUTION HAS NOT BEEN DRAWN UP PROPERLY AS YET; THE PRESIDENT KNOWS THIS!!! "BECLEAR MY PEOPLE THE REVOLUTION WAS BEING SIDE TRACKED THE PROSECUTOR WHO IS NOW SACKED!!! DI YOU WANT HIM TO STAY???? LET THE PRESIDENT GIVE THE PEOPLE THE REVOLUTION THAT YOU VOTED FOR!!! HE IS STANDING FIRM WITH EGYPT DID YOU NOT SEE HIS OUT REACH FOR PALESTINE HIS ALLIGIANCE TO GAZA??? WE MUST NOT CONFUSE HIS ACTIONS WITH ANYTHING THAT MUBARAK DID; MUBARAK WAS A SELL OUT A TRAITOR A PUPPET OF THE WEST!!!. CERTAINLY IN YOUR HEARTS THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT IN THE SAME SHOES AS MUBRAK. IF THERE IS TO BE JUSTICE FOR THE REVOLTION THERE MUST BE PURGE OF THE CORRUPT TREASONUS PARASITES THAT FILLED THE OFFICES OF THE LD REGIME. WHAT YOU MUST DO IS ORGANISE POLITICAL REVOLUTIONARY PARTIES THAT WILL BECOME PART AND PRINCIPAL OF THE REVOLUTION MAINATINING ALL, ITS VALUES". DO NOT SEEK TO PROTECT THOSE FROM THE OLD REGIME THAT ONLY DEVALUES YOUR REVOL;UTION AD MAKING THEM RIGHT!!. IF THE PRESIDENT DID NOT SEEK TO PUT AN END TO THESE BACKSTABBERS THEN THE RTEVOLUTION WOULD BE A WASH OUT!! WE WOULD SEE WASHINGTON AND ISRAEL SITTING IN CAIRO AS IF NOTHING HAS CHANGED!!!. WE ALSO NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND US WE SEE QATAR AND TURKEY WHOSE AIMS ARE CONTRARY TO THE REVOLUTION THEY DO NOT WANT DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT THEY WANT BTO SUPPORT DICTATORSHIPS AND KINGS ABSOLOUTE RULERS THEY HAVE NO DESIRE TO SEE TH ZIONMIST HELDIN CHECK. IF THEY DID THEY WOULD NOT DESTROY THE THRU VIOLENCE USING TH AMERICAN AND NATO PROGRQAM OF REACHING POLITICAL FREEDOMS THRU VOTING OUT THE GATE KEEPERS. EGYPT IS FREERE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS TO GIVE THE CNSTITUTION THE TIME TO BECOME KNOWN AND IMPLIMENTED THIS WILL SET GUIDELINES OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE REST OF THE GOVERNMENT. IF THE PRESIDENT DID NOT DO THIS THE OLD GUARD WOULD OBJECT AND USE THE LAWS TO UNDERMINE THE REVOLKUTION. THEY WOULD SIGHT OLD MUBRAK LAWS THAT HAS BEEN NOW DEFUNCT AS THIS WAS THE RESON FOR THE REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN NOT LOOK BACK TO BE GOVERNED BY THE SAME OLD LAWS THAT YOU FOUGHT SO BRAVELY TO OVERTURN. DO NOT BE TRICKED BY FOOLS THE REVOLUTION LIVES ON THIS IS YOUR PRESIDENT IF THERE IS ANY FEELINGS THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE EXPLAINED THEN ASK BUT AT NO TIME FEEL DESPAIR AND FEEEL AS IF YOUR REVOLUTION IS BEING DERAILED THE POINTB OF THIS EXERCISE IS TO KEEP THIS GLORIOUS REVOLUTION ALIVE".. IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT HAS BEEN LEARNED THAT IF THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE TRULY FEEL THAT THEIR WISHES ARE NOT BEING FULFILLED THEY WILL PUT THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF BUSINESS THIS IS APROVEN FACT. "FEAR NOT AND GIVE NOT YOUR STERNGTH TO THE DEVIL HE HAS NO STAKE IN THIS GOVERNMEMNT" " ONE HEART ONE LOVE ONE DESTINY" " "THE LOVE OF EGYPT ALWAYS ""FORWARD EVER BACKWARD NEVER"

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