Egypten får en ægte demokratisk valgt præsident for første gang, så længe egypterne kan huske, men i baggrunden sidder det mægtige øverste militærråd, som på forhånd har stækket hans beføjelser.
Egypt’s president-elect, Mohammed Mursi, has moved into his new office in the presidential palace and begun work forming a government he says will represent all of the people, BBC online reports Monday.
The Muslim Brotherhood candidate, who defeated ex-PM Ahmed Shafiq, could be sworn in by the end of the month. However, the ruling military council has taken many presidential powers and questions about his authority remain.
A new constitution, the economy and security will be his main priorities.
Aged 60, married with four children, Mr. Mursi comes from a village in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya. He is an US-educated engineering professor.
Mr Mursi met Monday with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf).
One key point of discussion with the Scaf will be the court-ordered dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated parliament, which happened days before the presidential run-off vote.
The Scaf has led Egypt since last year’s revolution and issued a series of recent decrees:
* The justice ministry gave soldiers the right to arrest civilians for trial in military courts until the ratification of a new constitution
* A decree was issued dissolving parliament after a court ruling that the law on elections to the lower house of parliament was invalid
* The Scaf granted itself legislative powers and reinforced its role in the drafting of a permanent constitution
* Field Marshal Tantawi announced the re-establishment of a National Defence Council, putting the generals in charge of Egypt’s national security policy
In his victory speech on Sunday, Mr Mursi said, that “there is no room now for the language of confrontation”, after the election authorities declared that he had won 51,73 per cent in the 16-17 June presidential run-off.
On hearing the news of his victory, tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters cheered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, chanting, “Down with military rule!”.
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