An Agressive Move From Morsi.

Today (8/7/12) Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi has announced the reinstatement of the Parliament that was dissolved by the Supreme Constitutional Court on June 14 (14/6/12). If members of Egypt's Parliament attempt to re-enter the Parliament building tomorrow (9/6/12) - and members of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood linked Freedom and Justice Party likely will - it may well provoke a confrontation with the police and military. Egypt's interim military rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) are said to be holding an emergency meeting to consider their response.

This all stems from the Presidential run-off. According to the Muslim Brotherhood's own reporting this election featured a number of breaches of election rules that were serious enough to render the result null and void. However Egypt's interim military rulers were prepared to overlook these and allow Morsi to be inaugurated as President anyway. So now President Morsi is challenging the military to see if they are holding onto those voting irregularities as a way to force him out of office at some point in the future and if they are how far can he go before they use them.

I'm not sure how significant the Parliament issue is though because the constitutional declaration of June 17th (17/6/12) stripped Parliament of really it's one and only job of appointing the panel to write the new constitution.