الرئيسية
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's first free parliament in six decades got to
work Monday with Islamists holding by far the most seats and opponents
comparing their grip on the chamber to that enjoyed by the now defunct
party of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
With almost half the seats in the assembly, the Muslim Brotherhood is
promising to cooperate with the military generals, who took power last
February when Mubarak was overthrown, in their transition to civilian
rule.
Thousands of protesters who fear a deal between the Islamists and the
army to carve up power cried "down with the military government" behind
a police cordon near the parliament building, a reminder to those
trying to rebuild Egypt's state institutions of the power of the street.
A credible chamber would help Egypt's new political class prove it
can govern and the Brotherhood has said it wants to be inclusive and
ensure all voices in Egypt are heard.
The session began in somber mood as parliament's acting speaker,
automatically chosen as its oldest member, invited deputies to hold a
silent prayer in memory of the hundreds who died in the uprising that
ousted Mubarak in February last year.
work Monday with Islamists holding by far the most seats and opponents
comparing their grip on the chamber to that enjoyed by the now defunct
party of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
With almost half the seats in the assembly, the Muslim Brotherhood is
promising to cooperate with the military generals, who took power last
February when Mubarak was overthrown, in their transition to civilian
rule.
Thousands of protesters who fear a deal between the Islamists and the
army to carve up power cried "down with the military government" behind
a police cordon near the parliament building, a reminder to those
trying to rebuild Egypt's state institutions of the power of the street.
A credible chamber would help Egypt's new political class prove it
can govern and the Brotherhood has said it wants to be inclusive and
ensure all voices in Egypt are heard.
The session began in somber mood as parliament's acting speaker,
automatically chosen as its oldest member, invited deputies to hold a
silent prayer in memory of the hundreds who died in the uprising that
ousted Mubarak in February last year.