And It's Egypt For the Hat-trick.

Although no official announcement has been made the Secretary General of the lower house of Egypt's Parliament the Peoples Assembly has today (16/6/12) informed the media that he has received an official notice from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces that the Peoples Assembly has been dissolved in accordance with Thursday's (14/6/12) ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC).

As no official announcement has been made obviously no date for a fresh round of Parliamentary elections has been set. Egypt is currently in the very middle of two days of voting in the Presidential run-off vote and there are very real concerns that the Muslim Brotherhood will react with street violence and public disorder if their candidate, Mohamed Morsy loses. Therefore I think it is fair to say that Egypt's interim military rulers are very busy at the moment so I am prepared to give them seven days until Sunday June 24th (24/6/12) to announce the date of the next election. However if they are able to set a new election date before the results of the Presidential run-off are announced on Thursday (21/6/12) it will significantly reduce the risk of violence.

In the meantime rather then protesting the dissolution of Parliament Egypt's secular revolutionary parties should start working together to form electoral pacts. That is to say they agree that only one of them should stand a candidate in each of the 27 constituencies. This will prevent the secular revolutionary vote being diluted as it was during both the first Parliamentary election and the first round of the Presidential vote increasing the number of secular members in the Peoples Assembly and hopefully breaking the deadlock over the writing of the new constitution.