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Amr Dalsh / Reuters / REUTERS
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi seen here at the presidential palace in Cairo, Oct. 8, 2012.
CAIRO -- Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi announced late Thursday the dates for the country's parliamentary elections. These would be the first elections since he became president and the first under the country's controversial Constitution, which was approved in December.
The elections will take place in four stages, with each stage taking place over two days starting on April 26-27. The final stage will be held June 19-20.
The first session of the soon-to-be-elected House of Representatives will begin on July 6.
Egypt has been without a House of Representatives since a court dissolved the previous lower house. Legislative powers are currently divided between Morsi and the Upper House of Parliament, also known as the Shura Council. Constitutionally, only the lower house is allowed to make laws, which speaks to the significance of Morsi's election timetable announcement. Many have been pressing him to do so in recent weeks.
The country's opposition has vowed to boycott the upcoming elections, citing shortcomings and flaws in the draft electoral law that was being circulated. The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party says it will compete for an all-out majority of the seats and would not form any political alliances in fielding candidates with other parties. Many fear this is an attempt by the group to control both the legislative and executive branches of government by excluding other parties.
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Let's talk Egypt...shall we ?
We just gave them 20 F-16's and what....30 tanks ?
They showed their gratitude by refusing to let us speak to one of the only Benghazi participants....
Boy, this Obama Administration sure knows how to negotiate.....OMG, we are so screwed
We gave the arms to the egyptian military, who is our ally and is against the MB getting too much power.
Was it the military who refused this? I can't find a link to it at all. I see a suspect in tunesia, but that can't be what you are talking about, since its the wrong country.
We'll be really screwed if we stop paying off the military to keep some semblance of neutrality there.
Military should overthrow and jail that front cover for seventh century desert mindset bigoted Sunni Morsi and his Muslim Bloodhounds.
They will destroy Egypt with their Islamic religious madness and Sharia Laws.
Life will be horrible for sane Muslims, females, minority sect Muslims, Christians and Israel.
Time for school, run along little boy/girl
Vermontguy is right, and wow I agree 100% with Jonathan again for the second time ever, we're fre fre now Jon! A few weeks ago the military declined an order from Morsi to send troops into the streets against protesters and Morsi has been unsuccessfully attempting to remove the current military leaders from power. Analysts believe that the public declination of an order from Morsi is setting up the public to support the military when/if they attempt to remove Morsi from power.
"The country's opposition has vowed to boycott the upcoming elections, citing shortcomings and flaws in the draft electoral law that was being circulated."
The elections will be rigged.
Morsi and his Sunni Islamic gangsters have more opposition than Mubarak.
In Egypt, the Sunni extremists with labels like Salaffi and MB (Muslim Bloodhounds) are opening up new chapters of Islamic bigotry. Morsi is just a front for them.
Just watch the fate of sane Muslims, minority sect/tribe people, Christians, women and Israel as the time goes by.
All sane Egyptians including army should join hands and throw out the seventh century Sunni barbaric and beastly Morsi and his MB, Salaffi and others.
Look for the military to be in the streets by the end of June.
Just a matter of time before the Egyptian military regains control? Maybe this is why Israel supported the transfer of US arms to the Egyptian military?
I wonder if Obama wants the U.S. to be indifferent just to see what happens...?
So far our programs have been mostly offensive' to the local people and certainly self-serving to the pockets and ambitions of the Brotherhood.
I say let em go at it - seems like the death of non-agreers is what these Muslims worship first and foremost.
All I see is a "Bathist-type" conspiracy to have a rubber-stamp legislative branch of yes-men just like Suddam Husein had in Iraq or like Syria had before their civil war started. People of opposing views will never get a say in politics until the people running the show are able to think beyond themselves and their personal feelings. Nations are built by a groups of people who don't nessecarily have the same beliefs or views but are willing to stike a bargain to bind together for the common good of all groups.
If you don't have that then you only have tribalism and that is not progress.