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Crisis in Egypt

Court overturns president’s decree

Agencies
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court froze a presidential decree yesterday reinstating the Islamist-led parliament, hours after the lower house convened in defiance of the judiciary and military.
heighten a crisis that has raged since President Mohamed Morsi, a former member of the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, issued the decree Sunday just eight days after taking office.
Members of parliament gathered for a brief session earlier in the day before the ruling of the Supreme
President Mohamed Morsi had issued the decree in defiance of a military council ruling that dissolved parliament.
The top court's decision is expected to
Constitutional Court was announced.
Hundreds have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest against the
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court's latest decision.
Protesters chanted slogans calling the decision "illegitimate" and denouncing the military, reports said.
The same court sparked the current impasse last month, when it said the parliamentary election was null and void because of flaws in the law setting it up.
The Muslim Brotherhood party - Morsi's power base -has the biggest bloc of seats in the parliament, and the current political impasse is seen by analysts as being part of a power struggle between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) and the party.
Members of parliament met for their brief session before it was adjourned by Speaker Saad al-Katatni.
Katatni said that by holding the assembly, MPs were not contradicting the dissolution ruling "but looking at a mechanism for the implementation of the ruling of the respected court. There is no other agenda today".
The MPs approved Katatni's proposal that the parliament seek legal advice from a high appeals court on how to implement the Supreme Court's ruling on the election.
Some non-Islamist MPs boycotted the session, criticising Morsi for what they said was an attack on the judiciary.
The liberal Free Egyptians party said Morsi's "violation of the Supreme Court's decision" represented a "challenge to the legitimacy of his own rule", as Morsi
had taken his oath of office in front of the court.
The Scaf said it was confident "all state institutions" would respect the law and constitution.
The dissolution of parliament took place the day before Morsi was elected in Egypt's first ever free presidential poll.
It is unclear how events will unfold as the situation - with the new president elected without a new constitution having been drafted - is unprecedented, analysts say.
At the same time as dissolving parliament, the Scaf also issued a constitutional declaration stripping the president of any authority over the military, giving itself legislative powers and the power to veto the as-yet-undrafted constitution.