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Dans un article du New York Times, Mayy el Sheikh et Liam Stack décrivent la manifestation d'hier au Caire et fournissent quelques éléments de compréhension.
La manifestation était importante en nombre et en portée. Plus de 10,000 personnes occupaient la place Tahir et, surtout, une bonne partie d'entre eux étaient partisans ou sympathisants de groupes islamistes ou salafistes comme les Frères musulmans ou d'autres groupes moins importants mais plus radicaux.
Ce qui a déclenché le mouvement est une déclaration des autorités militaires :
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That truce fell apart, on the eve of parliamentary elections, after the military council spelled out for the first time its intention to preserve a decisive role for itself in Egyptian politics far into the future, elevating itself above civilian control and imposing rules to protect individual and minority rights. [...] All said [les manifestants] they came to protest because of the provisions about the role of the military in its constitutional ground rules. One provision would give the military a special political role as guardian of “constitutional legitimacy,” which many consider a license to intervene at will in any matter. Other provisions would protect its budget from civilian supervision and grant the military broad authority over foreign policy as well."
La manifestation pourrait bien indiquer le début d'un bras de fer entre le pouvoir (militaire) et les Frères musulmans :
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Each side is drawing a line in the sand over its future role in the political process,” said Prof. Emad Shahin, an Egyptian scholar at Notre Dame who was in Tahrir Square on Friday. “The military forces would like to secure an exit from the transitional period with some kind of assurances of their future role in the political scene, and the Islamists think that this could put a check on their power even if they win in clean and fair elections.”
Egyptian Islamists Rally in Cairo Against Military - NYTimes.com
