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The European Union Delegation to Egypt News Coverage prepared for: The European Union delegation to Egypt . Disclaimer: “This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of authors of articles and under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of IPSOS or the European Union.” 1 . Thematic Headlines Domestic Scene Political Powers across Egypt Continue Protests against Declaration HPEC Postpones Announcement of Election Winner Tahrir Unified on Rejecting Complementary Declaration Former MP Files Lawsuit against Tantawi Morsi Won in Polls with 51.7% - Judges Movement UN Chief Calls on SCAF to Hand over Power SCAF Secures Vital Entities Stuffed Ballot Papers Case Al-Jamaa Al-Islameya Plans to Spread Chaos Advisory Council Criticizes MB MB Secret Meeting The Phantom of Rigging in the Runoffs Mubarak’s Funeral The Administrative Court to Rule in the Case of the Constituent Assembly The Revolution Coalition Calls for a Mass Demonstration MB Sources Claim SCAF’s Bargain Ambiguity Surrounds Presidential Elections MOI on Alert before Declaring Elections Results Judges for Egypt Increase Uncertainty of Egyptians MB Spokesman: Serious Confrontation Might Occur If Shafiq Was Declared the President Al-Shater: No Clashes with SCAF MPs Confirm Dissolving Parliament is Illegal 2 Newspapers (21/06/2012) Pages: 1, 3 Author: Amani Majid and others The Phantom of Rigging in the Runoffs The campaigns of the two presidential candidates are exchanging accusations of rigging in the run-off round of the presidential elections. Contestations were filed against irregularities in voting and vote counting in 14 governorates. A lawyer filed a lawsuit yesterday at the State Council to suspend the declaration of the final results because of allegedly proven rigging committed by the two candidates. Carter Center in Cairo doubted the decency of the runoffs. Spokesman of al-Tajammu Party Nabil Zaki accused the Muslim Brotherhood of blocking roads in Upper Egypt and preventing Copts from voting, threatening them with guns. Meanwhile, there was a division at the Judge Club in Cairo yesterday. While the “Judges for Egypt” movement, headed by Judge Zakaria Abd al-Aziz, former head of the Judge Club declared unofficial results that showed Mursi leading, Judge Ahmad al-Zind, head of the Judge Club asserted that all declared results were not sure. In as related context, Dr. Mahmoud Ghizlan, spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood threatened of a “dangerous confrontation between people and the Army” if Shafiq was declared winner. A number of political players denounced Shizlan’s declarations. Head of al-Tajammu Party Rifaat al-Saeid called on Ghizlan not to speak in the name of the Egyptian people. In his part, Najih Ibrahim, member of the Shura Council of al-Jamaah al-Islamiya described the declarations as a dangerious implied threat from the Muslim Brotherhood. 3 Secretary General of the High Presidential Elections Commission Hatim Bagato said the 400 contestations filed by the two candidates cover all the governorates. The legal team of Mursi’s campaign filed 124 contestations against violations in nine governorates. The violations included bribes, ineligible voters and pulling voters. On the other hand, Judge Yahya Qadri, Shafiq’s lawyer stated the campaign filed 221 contestations, in addition to the calims against the forgery of printing ballots at al-Amiriya Printing House. Rigging took place in 14 governorates. Qadri referred to alleged one million forged ballots that were printed at al-Amirya Printing House in favor of Mursi. Qadri added that the number of voters declared by the Freedom and Justice Party was one million and 400 thousand more than the number of eligible voters who signed on the voting lists. Similar news was reported in al-Shurouk, p. 1 4 Page: 4 Author: Wael Mohamed, Ahmed Youssef and Islam Diab Tahrir Unified on Rejecting Complementary Declaration Protesters in the iconic Tahrir Square were unified once again, this time against the Complementary Constitutional Declaration issued by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. On a million-man protest on Tuesday, the demonstrators chanted anti-SCAF slogans. The protesters closed Downtown Cairo’s streets leading to and from the square. At 10:45 pm, a march led by disqualified presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu- Ismail arrived in Tahrir Square coming from the Giza neighborhood of Dokki. Addressing the crowds, Abu-Ismail urged SCAF to hand over power without manipulating the results of the presidential elections. 5 Page: 5 Author: Mohsen Samika Former MP Files Lawsuit against Tantawi MP of the dissolved People’s Assembly Essam Sultan filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court against head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, Shura Council Speaker Ahmed Fahmi and Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim for preventing him from entering the premises of the dissolved parliament. Sultan said he headed to the premises to attend a general meeting pre-called for by the parliament’s speaker but was prevented from entering by guards, who told him they had orders to prevent any MP from accessing the building. 6 Page: 6 Author: Mohamed el-Sanhouri, Mahmoud Ramzi and Ghada Mohamed el-Sherif HPEC Postpones Announcement of Election Winner The High Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) announced postponing the results of the presidential elections to an indefinite date, saying it needs more time to examine 400 challenges lodged by runoff candidates Ahmed Shafiq and Mohamed Morsi. In a statement issued Tuesday, the HPEC said it is still looking into the field challenges. 7 Pages: 3 Author: Hicham Abd al-Hafiz Mubarak’s Funeral A judicial military source stated that Mubarak would not have a military funeral because he had lost his military rank and all his medals and merits when he was proved guilty and sentenced by the court. 8 Page: 3. Author: Not mentioned. MB Spokesman: Serious Confrontation Might Occur If Shafiq Was Declared the President Dr. Mahmoud Ghazlan, spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, warned against what he described as “a serious confrontation” that might happen between the people and the army if the Presidential Elections Commission declared Lieutenant General Ahmed Shafiq as Egypt’s new president. Ghazlan confirmed that the rumors spread by Shafiq’s campaign claiming that he won the presidential elections prove that SCAF and the Presidential Elections Commission might be preparing the public opinion for elections fraud. He also stated that if Shafiq was declared the new president, this would mean that SCAF succeeded in making a coup d’état, which might result in a dangerous confrontation between the people and the army. “I hope that SCAF generals submit to the will of the people,” said Ghazlan. He also denied any ongoing negotiations between the MB and SCAF. 9 Page: 1, 4 Author: not mentioned MB Secret Meeting Al-Dostour newspaper said the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) political arm, held a secret meeting headed by Khairat El-Shater and Essam Al-Erian in one of the party’s premises to review the plan that will be executed if presidential candidate Ahmed Shafq wins in the polls. Al-Dostour allocated Page 1 and 4 to explain this MB plan as follows: In case Shafiq wins, military groups will incite the youth to organize marches. During these marches, snipers in Mostafa Mahmoud, Abbasseya, Tahrir, and Dokki areas will shoot the protesters. In addition to this, groups will attack security forces at checkpoints in Sinai to facilitate the Palestinian Hamas movement’s entrance to Egypt to implement the plan to overthrow military forces. As many as 300 public figures will be assassinated at the same time in several governorates to terrorize the citizens and make them surrender to the MB oppressive plans, the newspaper claimed. In Cairo, they will attack Tora Prison, even if Mohamed Morsi wins, to kill Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, and all the figures that have critical information about the MB. Former President Mubarak was to be killed but he has been transferred to the hospital. Second: They will attack the protesters and leave behind military and police weapons to show that they are responsible for killing the protesters to in order to make the martyrs’ families attack the police and the Armed Forces. 10 Third: They will open Rafah border crossing and launch missiles towards Israel so that the international community gets busy with Israel’s responsive attacks on Gaza, while the MB kills all the opposition parties in Egypt. Forming groups that will be responsible for protecting and killing anyone who gets near to MB premises. Holding deals with criminals and thugs to attack police stations, sabotage them and vandalize some of the houses of security figures homes. Attacking and sabotaging the premises of civil defense forces. MB women will try to convince the people to not allow their children to go out in protests in order not to be killed by former regime members’ forces and that MB will do this on their behalf. 11 Page: 3 Author: Ahmed Gamal El-Din Advisory Council Criticizes MB The Advisory Council issued a statement in which it strongly criticized the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), accusing it of exploiting the revolution. The Council urged all the citizens to support the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) after Israel started to take steps for military plans. The Council said the MB forged 780 votes and has threatened the High Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC) in order to disregard MB violations and announce Mohamed Morsi as president even if he has not won. 12 Page: 3 Author: Abdel-Rahman Abu Ouf Al-Jamaa Al-Islameya Plans to Spread Chaos The Al-Jamaa Al-Islameya (Islamic Group) spokesman said the group will spread chaos and cross all the red lines in order to pressure the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
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