By Jaime Ortega.
Egypt pushed for the last 24 hours the ultimatum launched yesterday by the army with multitudinous protest without the slightest hint of dialogue.
Everything seems destined to looks as if the armed forces took on the morning control of the Arab country.
The ‘current bill’ would happen only by suspending the controversial Constitution, adopted in the Egyptian referendum last December, to dissolve the Shura, and the High Chamber which currently holds all legislative power after the dissolution last June of the low Chamber.
According to the draft to which accessed Reuters, the bill would force Egypt, the most populated country the Arab world, to return to the ‘match point’ of two and half years after the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
A new transition, that oppose the Islamists, who not would include the celebration of new parliamentary elections and presidential.
But the first swing after the 48 hour army ultimatum was that the Government submitted its resignation to President Mohamed Mursi, which still has not pronounced anything on behalf of the petition.
The order conceded 48 hours at political forces to comply with the popular request, installed yesterday during hours to Islamists in silence during street protest. When he spoke last mid night, his voice rang challenging.
They urged his peers to take the streets to prevent any “attempted state of coup”. The ultimatum not even aroused unanimity in the frayed rows of oppositional accentuating the uncertainty that reigns in the most populated country of the Arab world.
‘Not accept a coup’
“We will not accept a blow to the legitimacy of the President. They will have to be above our corpses”, said last night the prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed el Beltagui, to the crowd that since last Friday encampeth on the outskirts of a mosque cairota of Medinat Naser. At dawn, the Presidency censored the ‘communiqué of the armed forces fearing of some the connotations of some phrases “that could cause confusion”.
The note confirmed that the successor of Hosni Mubarak had not been informed previously of the changeover that fronted the Army.
Unsurprisingly, the “communiqué” fell like a jug of cold water inside the palace. This past Wednesday, in his last speech to the nation, President Mursi wanted silence to the speculations regarding “sabers of noise” and boasted of being the commander in chief of the armed forces.
Yesterday, the exit to the palestra of the uniformed army jumped by airs of swagger. “The Muslim Brotherhood made miniscule the possibility that the opposition and possibility that the army would intervene to return the country to the box exit”, said the Egyptian analyst Jalil al Anani, expert in the Brotherhood.
The called Frente of June 30, that agglutinates to various opposition groups Egyptians, has chosen to ex prize Nobel of Peace Mohamed El Baradei as representative responsible for prepare a political transition and achieve “the people’s demands”.
One of the scenarios, the most extreme in this case, would take the fiasco to Algerian grounds. “The Islamists could understand it as a coup against a democratically elected president. It can lead to a bloody confrontation between Islamists and the military as happened in Algeria during the decade of 1990”, adds the political scientist.
Yesterday, the Brotherhood-which brought to urgency a meeting of its bureau-broke under the silence of the umbrella of its allied Salafists (rigorists Muslims). In a press conference, the coalition of Islamist parties encouraged the manifestations and rejected “any attempt to face the army against democratic legitimacy.”
However, no Brotherhood members took the word in the press conference. The voice took was taken by Al Gama al Islamiya, the former terrorist organization that renounced to weapons in 1999 and has become the main socio of President and his group.
Another key ally is happened last night definitely to opposition camp: the party Salafist Al Nur asked the convening of elections early presidential.
But the President was not willing to take the street protests, as it considers a “counterrevolution” by nostalgics of Mubaraks regime with the blessing of the opposition liberal leftist, to modify its roadmap and snatch his armchair.
Mursi further believes that he is the only legitimized person to pull-without help the military country of the quagmire.
In fact, his office insists that the “rais” follows an outstretched hand to engage in dialogue and reconcile with his detractors within the constitutional framework. The ultimatum the army, considered, “only serves to deepen the division”.In his judgment, the call last night from Barack Obama to Mursi is a test of that authority indisputable.
And what about the other side? The Egyptian opposition is an amalgam that mixes just as bad as oil blends with water. Yesterday it was not agreed to any a step forward on the military, which hinders any dialogue left in the narrow space within 48 hours.
“There is no presidency with which negotiate”, came to say last night the prominent member of an opposition party.
One of the scenarios is the consensus, of the formation for a national unity government that revitalises a cabinet wounded by the resignation of six technocrat ministers in the last hours, that seems doomed before its start to failure.
Shortly after the diffusion of the communiqué, thousands of people celebrated in Tahrir Square the return of the army, whose helicopters-in an attack of patriotism-launched a rain of teachest to the Egyptian crowd.
The opposition campaign ‘Tamarrud’ (Rebellion, in Arabic), which ensures having gathered 22 million signatures demanding the march of Mursi and the convening of early presidential elections, to celebrate. Which believes the spokesman of the initiative Mahmud Badr.
The National Salvation Front, the main opposition of the alliance, accepted to participate in the dialogue but interpreted the step as a support to their slogans. The protests, in any case, know not to truce. One of the main faces in the block, the former secretary general of the Arab League Amro Musa called it “a historic opportunity that should not be wasted”. Among the opposition of most enthusiastic sectors with the army, those that linked the Mubarak regime, reigned the urge of revenge against few towards those who feel.
“I believe this regime will end completely in a week”, declared to Reuters Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister of Mubarak who faced Mursi in the second round of the elections of last year.
Among the revolutionaries, human rights activists and groups leftists, the army statement caused dread. They reject his return. “We are totally against. We support the military’s role as protector of our borders, our people and our national security but do not want him back which would suppose a military regime that imposes a roadmap”, told the state newspaper Al Ahram Ingi Hamdi, leader of youth movement April 6.
