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(CBS News) — In spite of opposition claims that Egypt’s cadre of ruling generals is setting up what they say amounts to a military dictatorship, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) announced Monday that it will “hand over power to the elected president” at the end of this month.
“The army will hand over power to the elected president in a big ceremony end-month that the entire world will witness,” the official news agency MENA quoted Major-General Mohamed El Assar, a member of the ruling army council, as saying.
“Egypt is a modern democratic country that upholds all democratic values,” the statement went on.
The Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory early Monday in Egypt’s first freely-contested presidential election, saying their candidate Mohammed Morsi had enough votes to become the first Islamist head of state in the Middle East to be elected in the wake of the tumult of the “Arab Spring”.