The arrangements will apply for a transitional period of six months. Then there should be new elections. Cairo - After the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian army leadership has dissolved Parliament and suspended the validity of the constitution.
The transitional period until new elections should take six months, the army command said in a statement read out on state television. The Supreme Military Council had taken over on Friday after the resignation of Mubarak's power temporarily and promised a "peaceful transition" to a newly elected Government.
Shortly before Prime Minister Ahmed Schafik security in Egypt was declared a major task. His government would establish normality - "from a cup of tea to medical treatment," he said Sunday at a press conference in Cairo. Only afterwards would the government turn to medium and long term goals.
Shortly before the press conference, the Cabinet had first taken without Mubarak. The economic situation in Egypt, he called good. But that will only remain so if the country now come back stability. He called the fight against corruption a major goal of the new government. "I guarantee that this cabinet to return people's rights and the fight against corruption." The opposition movement has urged in the past two days to submit a timetable for the reform process and the way to elections.
According to recent skirmishes between police and protesters on Sunday morning, the Egyptian opposition movement, the Tahrir Square in central Cairo has been largely cleared. The square was the center of the 18-day of mass protests against the regime of Mubarak. On Sunday, only two tents were on the court, which should also be reduced, the demonstrators said Musab Schahrur afternoon.
While the military police regulated the traffic, there is still awaited from some 2,000 protesters. "It does not meet all demands, the most important requirement is met," said Schahrur, a follower of the Egyptian youth movement sixth April. "But the nation now knows the game. It can be mobilized at any time again," he said.
Next Friday to celebrate the opposition on the Tahrir Square. In the morning there was again some dangerous situations. Military and police forces pushed several hundred protesters still persevering in the lane of the road surfaces of the square. They wanted to unlock the lanes to traffic.
The protesters wanted to stay until the state of emergency was lifted and the parliament is dissolved. Unarmed soldiers and policemen tried to push them from the square. This led to eyewitness reports, even to loud arguments and scuffles. The spread in the rush by telephone in the city.
In no time, then hundreds of demonstrators flocked to the square, there to reinforce the present. For a short time was tension over the place. Basically, as told SPIEGEL ONLINE correspondent Hasnain Kazim, the military would not have minded that protesters remain on the court. The day before the military had begun with the dismantling of barricades.
The Tahrir Square was on 28 was January after clashes with riot police from the opponents of the Mubarak regime occupied permanently. The protests had begun three days earlier. On 11 February Mubarak came back eventually.
The transitional period until new elections should take six months, the army command said in a statement read out on state television. The Supreme Military Council had taken over on Friday after the resignation of Mubarak's power temporarily and promised a "peaceful transition" to a newly elected Government.
Shortly before Prime Minister Ahmed Schafik security in Egypt was declared a major task. His government would establish normality - "from a cup of tea to medical treatment," he said Sunday at a press conference in Cairo. Only afterwards would the government turn to medium and long term goals.
Shortly before the press conference, the Cabinet had first taken without Mubarak. The economic situation in Egypt, he called good. But that will only remain so if the country now come back stability. He called the fight against corruption a major goal of the new government. "I guarantee that this cabinet to return people's rights and the fight against corruption." The opposition movement has urged in the past two days to submit a timetable for the reform process and the way to elections.
According to recent skirmishes between police and protesters on Sunday morning, the Egyptian opposition movement, the Tahrir Square in central Cairo has been largely cleared. The square was the center of the 18-day of mass protests against the regime of Mubarak. On Sunday, only two tents were on the court, which should also be reduced, the demonstrators said Musab Schahrur afternoon.
While the military police regulated the traffic, there is still awaited from some 2,000 protesters. "It does not meet all demands, the most important requirement is met," said Schahrur, a follower of the Egyptian youth movement sixth April. "But the nation now knows the game. It can be mobilized at any time again," he said.
Next Friday to celebrate the opposition on the Tahrir Square. In the morning there was again some dangerous situations. Military and police forces pushed several hundred protesters still persevering in the lane of the road surfaces of the square. They wanted to unlock the lanes to traffic.
The protesters wanted to stay until the state of emergency was lifted and the parliament is dissolved. Unarmed soldiers and policemen tried to push them from the square. This led to eyewitness reports, even to loud arguments and scuffles. The spread in the rush by telephone in the city.
In no time, then hundreds of demonstrators flocked to the square, there to reinforce the present. For a short time was tension over the place. Basically, as told SPIEGEL ONLINE correspondent Hasnain Kazim, the military would not have minded that protesters remain on the court. The day before the military had begun with the dismantling of barricades.
The Tahrir Square was on 28 was January after clashes with riot police from the opponents of the Mubarak regime occupied permanently. The protests had begun three days earlier. On 11 February Mubarak came back eventually.
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