Morsi orders to re-convene dissolve Parliament
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The new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi decided on Sunday, by an official decree, to set aside the ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court to dissolve the People's Assembly (Parliament), reported the official MENA news agency. "President Morsi issued a presidential decree setting aside the ruling made June 15, 2012 to dissolve the People's Assembly and invited the Chamber to reconvene and to exercise its prerogatives," said MENA.
Meanwhile, Morsi will visit on July 11 in Saudi Arabia, his first foreign visit since being elected as the head of the state, reported MENA. During his visit, President Morsi will hold talks with King Abdullah Ben Abdul Aziz on ways to strengthen relations between the two countries, said Saturday the Saudi ambassador to Cairo, Ahmad al-Qattan.
Relations between the two countries have deteriorated in April after Saudi Arabia's decision to recall its ambassador and close its embassy in Cairo and its consulates in Alexandria and Suez because of hostile demonstrations. The demonstrators demanded the release of an Egyptian lawyer who was arrested by Saudi authorities.
Following efforts by Cairo to resolve this crisis, the Saudi king has ordered the reopening on May 4 of diplomatic missions in Egypt and the Saudi ambassador returned on May 5 in Cairo.
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The annulment by Mr. Mursi of the Egyptian Supreme Court order that dissolved the newly elected parliament is legitimate. The corrupt Mubarak regime has been wiped out by the people of Egypt, and his appointed Supreme Court judges must be replaced because they don't have any legitimacy in the new political order. Until that is done, probably by a new law when the parliament convenes, the corrupt Mubarak appointees at the Egyptian Supreme Court cannot have the final world in what happens in Egypt. The people do, through their elected representatives.
There was a "Revolution," and a "New Political Order" in Egypt. And all Revolutions wipe out the vestiges of the old political order. The Mubarak's coterie at the Egyptian Supreme Court, therefore, are nothing more than furniture of the Mubarak's corrupt regime, and they should be replaced as soon as possible.
Strictly speaking, the remnants of an old, corrupt, and overthrown regime cannot have a place in a new political order anywhere! What Mubarak's appointed Supreme Court judges did in Egypt is similar to what Laurent Gbagbo's appointed Supreme Court judges did in Ivory Coast: They invalidated the election victory of Mr. Alexandro Quattara by declaring Mr. Gbagbo a winner! Those judges were ousted, and the person who had appointed them, former president Laurent Gbagbo, is waiting trial at the the International Criminal Court in Hague!
Nikos Retsos, retired professor
