Wah bisa gawat nih, Morsi mau pakai serdadu buat menindas oposisi.
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Egypt's military 'will not allow violence'
Army urges all political forces to solve differences through dialogue to
prevent "dark tunnel with disastrous results".
Last Modified: 08 Dec 2012 14:27
Egypt's military has warned of "disastrous consequences" if the political
crisis gripping the country is not resolved through dialogue.
"The path of dialogue is the best and only way to reach agreement and achieve
the interests of the nation and its citizens," said the military in a statement
released on Saturday.
"The opposite of that will take us into a dark tunnel with disastrous results,"
the statement added.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Cairo, said that the statement is
seeing as "a pretty serious warning by the military".
"In fact, right now, the so-called 'national dialogue' meeting is taking place
at the presidential palace," said Tadros, adding that "notable absent are any
key members of the opposition."
The military statement came as demonstrators fenced off an administrative
building in Tahrir Square as anger over President Mohamed Morsi's attempts to
push through a new constitution continues.
It also came after the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram reported that Morsi would
soon authorise the armed forces to help police keep order.
The capital Cairo and other cities have been rocked by violent protests since
November 22, when Morsi issued a decree awarding himself sweeping powers that
put him above the law.
Morsi called for a national dialogue but the country's main opposition leaders
have vowed boycott, urging the president to first cancel a December 15
referendum on a controversial draft constitution and rescind decrees granting
him immunity from any oversight.
Egypt's main Islamist parties on Saturday rejected opposition demands to delay
the referendum on a new constitution they helped draft.
The coalition of 13 parties "insist that the referendum on the constitution
take place on the scheduled date, with no modification or delay," according to
a joint statement read to media by the number two of the Muslim Brotherhood,
Khairat al-Shater.
'Arm-twisting'
The National Salvation Front, the main opposition coalition, said it would not
join Saturday's national dialogue.
The Front's co-ordinator, Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel peace laureate, dismissed
the offer as "arm-twisting and imposition of a fait accompli".
Murad Ali, spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party,
said opposition reactions were disappointing: "What exit to this crisis do they
have other than dialogue?" he asked.
Morsi could be joined by some senior judiciary figures and politicians such as
Ayman Nour, one of the candidates in ousted President Hosni Mubarak's only
multi-candidate presidential race, in 2005, in which he was defeated.
Mahmoud Mekki, Egypt's vice president, issued a statement saying the president
was prepared to postpone the referendum if that could be done without legal
challenge.
But the concession fails to meet the full demands of the opposition, who also
want Morsi to discard the decree awarding himself extra powers.
ElBaradei said that if Morsi were to scrap the decree with which he awarded
himself wide powers and postpone the
referendum "he will unite the national forces".
The state news agency reported that the election committee had postponed the
start of voting for Egyptians abroad until Wednesday, instead of Saturday as
planned. It did not say whether this would affect the timing of voting within
Egypt.
Ahmed Said, leader of the liberal Free Egyptians Party, told the Reuters news
agency that delaying expatriate voting was intended to seem like a concession
but would not change the opposition's stance.
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies
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