
Something seriously wrong here.
(Ahram Online) — Egyptian secular and liberal parties sounded dissatisfaction over the reported support of the US for Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, Mohamed Mursi, but affirmed they would accept the results of the elections due to be announced Sunday.
During a press conference Saturday, representatives of the Free Egyptians Party, the Democratic Front Party, the Revolution Continues Coalition, the Tagammu Party and the Kifaya Movement opened fire on the Brotherhood, voicing suspicion over the group’s sudden change of stance towards the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
The conference came after the Brotherhood announced Friday its concessions to revolutionary movements, guaranteeing their representation in both the government-to-be and the Constituent Assembly, in order to form a unified front against SCAF’s alleged attempt to hold onto power.
The speakers, mostly parliamentarians, condemned the current scene in Tahrir Square, where tens of thousands of Islamists together with other revolutionary movements are staging a sit-in against SCAF’s addendum to the March 2011 Constitutional Declaration, which gives the miltiary council unprecedented authorities, and against the dissolution of parliament’s lower house, the People’s Assembly, describing the scene as “the monopolisation of the revolution.”
