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Historic win for Morsi
Why not give the Brotherhood a chance
By Badrya Darwish
badrya_d@kuwaittimes.net
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t last Egypt elected its president. After a long struggle and a long and tiring election campaign, the new president was announced yesterday. I hope that the other party accepts the results of the elections. This is the first time in the Arab world that we heard of a president who admits he won the elections by 52 percent. We are used to hearing comical results like 99.9 percent, which would mean that the whole nation voted for that president. The results from Egypt’s elections show that Morsi is humble. At least he admits that he has an opponent. From the fifty million Egyptians who were eligible to vote, Morsi got around 13 million votes while Continued on Page 13
CAIRO: Egyptians carry a poster showing newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi in Tahrir Square yesterday. — AP CAIRO: Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi, the first Islamist to be elected president of the Arab world’s most populous nation, said yesterday he will be a leader “for all Egyptians” and called for national unity after a polarising race. Morsi, the country’s first elected leader since a popular uprising
ousted president Hosni Mubarak, won 51.73 percent of the vote against ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq. “I will be a president for all Egyptians,” Morsi said just hours after he was declared the winner. “I call on you, great people of Egypt ... to strengthen our national unity,” he said,
adding that national unity “is the only way out of these difficult times”. Morsi, who resigned from the Muslim Brotherhood to take the top job, thanked the “martyrs” of the uprising for the victory and stressed that “the revolution continues”. Continued on Page 13
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By B Izzak KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti opposition yesterday rejected the constitutional court ruling last week which nullified the 2012 election and reinstated the previous National Assembly, and called on the court and the judicial authority to “rectify” and reverse the ruling. In a hardhitting statement signed by 35 members of the 2012 assembly, the opposition insisted that the “ruling came outside the legislative authority”, adding that the court in this ruling has “exceeded the limitations of its powers”. “We call on the members of the constitutional court and the Supreme Judicial Council to rectify the situation and reverse” the ruling, the statement read by Khaled Al-Sultan said. The statement also called on the judicial authority not to venture into politics and not extend its authority outside its jurisdictions specified in the law establishing the constitutional court. The opposition reiterated that the Amiri decree dissolving the previous Assembly “does not fall within the jurisdiction of the constitutional court” and accordingly its ruling “is null and void” and should be rectified. The new position of the Kuwaiti opposition, comprising of 35 MPs of the 2012 Assembly, came after a four-hour meeting at the diwaniya of former speaker Ahmad Al-Saadoun. The opposition also called on the government to reject any dealing with the previous Assembly which was dissolved by the Amir because several of its members are allegedly involved in corruption scandals. Continued on Page 13