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June 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The Brotherhood, which had reluctantly accepted the dissolution of parliament
and said it would continue to compete in the election, reacted angrily.
Mohammed Saad el-Katatny, another Brotherhood leader and speaker of
parliament, said he did not accept the declaration. He said the current
constitutional committee, appointed by parliament before it was dissolved,
would continue with its work, threatening the first major stand-off since
the revolution between the Brotherhood and the army, Egypt’s two dominant
political forces.
The Brotherhood tweeted a statement saying the army’s constitutional
declaration was “null and void”. “Speaker strongly rejects
supplemental Constitutional Declaration, affirms legislative authority
remains at the hands of elected parliament,” it said.
Mr el-Katatny was the only MP allowed to enter the parliament building in
central Cairo after it was surrounded by troops and police on Friday
evening.
The election was already being fought under the shadow of allegations that the
run-off was a conspiracy between the army and the Brotherhood against
liberals, none of whose candidates won a place in the weekend’s run-off.
Revolutionary activists called the dissolution of parliament a “coup” and
mounted a campaign to boycott the election. During the vote mobile phone
photographs of spoiled ballots began to collect on the internet.
“I’m too confused to choose from the criminal and the coward – I’m
voting for Tahrir Square,” wrote Viola Fahmy, an activist, above a
picture of her paper with a cross beside both names.
She said: “The presidential election has proved beyond doubt that the
revolution was hijacked and excluded from the political scene, which has
been seized exclusively by the military and the Brotherhood.”
There were fewer queues outside polling stations than in either the
now-annulled parliamentary election or the presidential election’s first
round. Turnout in the latter was already low at 46 per cent.
The Brotherhood said opinion polls showed their man would win a free vote
comfortably. But they also claimed that “fake voters” were
appearing on polling station lists – dead people and members of the security
forces, who in Egypt are supposed to remain neutral and are disqualified.
“What is happening is a ‘soft fraud’,” said Mohammed Mustafa, a
campaign agent for Mr Morsi in Manshiet Nasser, a poor Cairo suburb.
But Mr Shafiq has also consolidated support outside his core base of old
regime supporters and minorities such as Christians who fear the rise of
political Islam.
“We need a proper administration now,” said Ahmed Abdulsamir, a shopkeeper,
reflecting the views of many Egyptians who say they are fed up with
political uncertainty.
The army’s sudden assertion of power may be a response to the success of the
Brotherhood in the immediate wake of the revolution, when it won the
parliamentary election, tried to seize control of the constitutional
committee, and then took the lead in the first round of voting for the
presidency.
“They went for broke and lost everything,” said Michael Wahid
Hanna, an analyst with The Century Foundation, but he said they still seemed
likely in the end to co-operate with the army.
“It seems that they are willing to scramble for the scraps that SCAF are
willing to give them.”
Amr Hosni, a teacher standing outside the headquarters of a Brotherhood
charity yesterday in the poor Cairo suburb of Manshiet Nasser, said the
Brotherhood’s time was still coming. “They are harvesting the
fruit of all their previous work in this election,” he said. “They
planted the seeds a long time ago.”
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