.... His ukase is a familiar power grab. It is supposedly “balanced” by announcements of new trials for his predecessor Hosni Mubarak and other old-regime figures after the courts failed to come to the “correct” verdict and sentence: guilty as hell and death.
“Morsi today usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt’s new pharaoh. A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences,” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel peace laureate who now heads an opposition party, wrote on his Twitter account.” [National Post] Read more
