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发帖数: 29846 | 1 CAIRO — Liberals and Islamists in Egypt announced a temporary agreement
Monday on a power-sharing plan that would install a Muslim Brotherhood
leader as speaker of the country’s newly elected parliament.
The agreement among six political parties all but guarantees that the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party will lead Egypt’s first elected
parliament since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in February, with the Islamist
party expected to control as many as half the seats.
Violent crackdown on anti-military protesters has left hundreds
injured in Egypt.
Under the power-sharing agreement, the ultraconservative Salafist Nour party
and the liberal al-Wafd party would also claim top positions, with their
representatives serving as deputy speakers, the parties announced during a
news conference Monday at the Freedom and Justice Party’s headquarters.
With a week left until the lower house of the parliament meets, the Freedom
and Justice Party said its nominee for speaker would be Mohamed Saad Katatny
, the party’s secretary general.
During the announcement, the party heads said the agreement would be a
temporary alliance to put their voting weight behind agreed-upon candidates
for the parliament’s leadership positions.
“This is a one-day agreement for the day the parliament opens,” Mohamed
Abou el-Ghar, the head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party said in an
interview. “We have to cooperate so the main posts in the parliament are
distributed fairly to all parties, including the people who won the
elections.”
Abou el-Ghar said it was possible that his own party could still be allotted
one of the deputy positions if the Wafd party chose not to go along with
the accord. The Social Democratic Party is part of an alliance of liberals
and leftists that is expected to take the fourth most seats after the
Freedom and Justice Party, the Nour party and al-Wafd.
This week the agreed parties will begin discussions to divvy up the
chairmanships of political committees in the lower house of the parliament,
known as the People’s Assembly. On Monday, the body will convene for the
first time.
Final results of the elections are expected this week, but party projections
and early returns show that Islamists are expected to take about two-thirds
of the seats, most of which will go to the political wing of the historic
Muslim Brotherhood organization.
The powers of the People’s Assembly are unclear and will be laid out in a
still-unwritten constitution. The People’s Assembly is supposed to choose
members of a constituent assembly that will write the country’s
constitution.
But Egypt’s military rulers have made clear that they would like to oversee
the constitution-writing process and possibly influence the selection of
the constituent assembly. Political party leaders said the ruling generals
would have no influence over the selection of parliament leaders.
The head of the Freedom and Justice Party, Mohammed Morsi, said during the
news conference that the short-term agreement was to guarantee a “
parliament that expresses national unity.” |
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