Crowds in Cairo praise Morsi's army overhaul

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Source: Aljazeera English

The Egyptian president has ordered the powerful head of the army and defence minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, and several senior generals into retirement and canceled constitutional amendments issued by the military restricting presidential powers.

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Thousands of Egyptians celebrated the announcement on Sunday night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that played home to the protests that ousted Mubarak.

"The people support the president's decision," the crowd chanted.

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Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, said: "The country may be without a constitution, but there are constitutional declarations that specify the job description of the president, and it is perfectly within the realm of his authority to hire and fire senior government officials."

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/08/201281215511142445.html

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Could we call this a "Presidential Coup"? Seems like Morsi might get away w/ this.

[redqueen]

1. K&R

[Ash_F]

2. Not a coup.

Should public policy be dictated by un-elected military officials?

[Posteritatis]

3. Yep. Boggles me that anyone'd call this a coup.

Though there's plenty of DUers who prefer military government in Arab countries, so I'm not really surprised to see the term used to describe the constitutional head of the country taking his powers back from the army.

[Ash_F]

4. Even in the USA, the military has too much power.

Obama, Bush, LBJ... it seems our presidents just kind of nod along with what the generals and their handlers want to do. Just along for the ride.