Egypt's new president Mursi challenges the almighty military

Who is ultimately prevail will decide on Tuesday at twelve noon: Then Egypt's parliament will meet in special session - even though their meeting was a month ago declared unconstitutional and dissolved. Whether it will succeed to the Member to pave the police and soldiers to pass their way into the parliament building in the heart of Cairo, will say a lot about the balance of power on the Nile. Come by the deputies, has the newly elected President Mohammed Mursi prevailed in the showdown with the military and won their first political victory. If the representatives of the people pushed, this is a further indication that the omnipotence of the ruling Military Council of Egypt, who must submit to the President. The dispute over the Egyptian Parliament began last winter with an initially positive message. With great enthusiasm, the Egyptians then chose the first free and secret their elected representatives. The turnout was about 60 percent high, the result is unique: With about 47 percent of the vote was for decades banned the Muslim Brotherhood clear winner of the election. The period since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and a half years before ruling military council SCAF saw the victory of the Islamists from the outset with skepticism. The reasons are manifold, say analysts: First, the pious to the generals dared not hope to lead the country. On the other hand they feared - now that their opponents had been legitimized by the people, political - in order to influence their own political and economic country. Up to 40 percent of Egypt's gross national product is estimated to be in possession of the military operations generates, what makes the Army's largest contractor in the country.

Dispute over the seats of independent candidates

In early June became apparent then that could win with Mohammed Mursi, a Muslim brother and presidential elections and the brothers could secure the supremacy of the Nile. Just two days before the runoff election, the Mursi would actually win, the Egyptian Constitutional Court of the electoral law for parliamentary elections in many parts declared to be illegal, because party members in large numbers to have reserved seats for independent candidates to be elected. Critics of the SCAF immediately sensed betrayal: the military would have influence on the decision taken by the Court and thus secured with a "soft coup" to power on the Nile. The Constitutional Court, whose judges are all from the era of the old regime and are appointed by Mubarak himself is, many Egyptians as being partisan rather than independent. Two days after the court decision said the military council dissolved the parliament, dominated by Islamists, actually, and took over control of the legislature. Egypt's first democratically elected National Assembly seemed History -. Up to this Sunday By the dissolved parliament by decree reinstated, President Mursi was surprising on a collision course with the powerful military council. The Constitutional Court summoned on Monday afternoon, all decisions of the Court are binding. Because the judgments and rulings of the Constitutional Court's "final" and that they could not be challenged, they are also for all public authorities "binding," it said in support. One third of the seats had been distributed illegally, because there is nothing to shake.

How does the army?

But despite this decision by the Court of Mursi could still emerge as the winner of the showdown with the generals. For it is questionable whether the military council ever had the right to dissolve Parliament: An administrative court will clarify this on Tuesday. If it comes to the conclusion that the resolution is void, it would be a stage win for Mursi. When Parliament was dissolved legally never need it again, he can not use - this would be the decision of the Constitutional Court annulled. The parliamentarians have the right to assemble, until it is clear how the allegedly illegally occupied seats are redistributed. To make these complex legal issues their followers to understand, it captured a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday once again in simple words. Mursi respect the Constitutional Court's decision and was quite sure that the Parliament would re-elected, said Sameh al-Essawi. Mursi decree apply solely to the SCAF, not against the judge's decision. Crucial will be how the Army will act in the event of a showdown in front of parliament on Tuesday: whether it will prevent the deputies from entering the building by force or not. On Monday it seemed as if the generals might be willing to yield. They moved army units from outside Parliament and some members allowed entry to the House of Commons. Even on state television indicated that the SCAF could potentially compromise: Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, Chief of the Military Council, was there, ostensibly on the side Mursi. At a graduation ceremony at a military academy, the two men even joked with each other. Perhaps Mursi has found, after only ten days in the presidency a way to break the all-powerful military.