Cairo: The ruling military council of Egypt held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss how they would proceed after the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court ordered the dissolution of the parliament, media reported on Friday.
According to reports, the controversial court decision comes on the eve of Egypt’s second round of presidential vote, scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, between former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi.
“The military council has begun important and intensive consultations with legal experts in order to write a constitutional declaration outlining the standards of the Constituent Assembly,” Egypt’s al-Masry al-Youm quoted an official source as saying.
“The complementary declaration will also stipulate the powers of the new president, and will likely be issued within hours,” the source said.
The source noted that the presidential powers would be derived from the Constitutional declaration issued in March 2011, following the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak by a popular uprising in February.
The new president would be sworn in before the general assembly of the Supreme Constitutional Court, the daily quoted the official as saying.
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