Egypt

Constitutional struggles in Egypt

In Cairo Egypt, calls for a major political demonstration of November the 18 has been called to take place by many political party’s in order to protest against the supra-constitutional principles that are made by the Government to be the guidelines for the upcoming new Egyptian constitution. Many political parties, including the nation’s Islamist, object this proposal because primarily two articles that give the Army complete sovereignty over its own arms deals as well as its budget. They fear that this will put the Army above the Parliament, something they believe should not happen in a democratic Egypt country. The Government on the other hand, feels that in would be a threat of national security if they aloud the world to know the budget of the army and therefor that these articles are very necessary. Because of this debate, many political parties have and are continuing to join the opponents of the supra-constitutional principals, and are agreeing to take part in a public protest on November the 18, an act the the government claims harbors the “conspiratorial agendas” of the dubbed “traitors"

The dilemma here lies in that the opponents of the supra-constitutional principles fear that this will leave to much unchecked power to the Egyptian Army and in all reality this is very likely. Under the two articles described in the article, the Army would be free to create its own budget and manage its own weapon supply relatively unchecked by any outside source which would basically allow the Army to do whatever they please unchecked by and outside force. This, as the opponents of this plan fear, has the possibility to lead to an army dictator ship if the army is free to do as they please and there own civilians have no idea what is going on in there own country. Therefor the Egyptian civilians have a right to worry these principles, principles that the government obviously approve of because it puts more power/control in there hands and less in that of the peoples.

Realist

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http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Hot+Topics/Middle+East+%26+North+Africa+Unrest/Egypt+Unrest

November 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm