CAIRO, Egypt — As Egyptians voted in a second day of election for an heir to Hosni Mubarak, the ruling military issued a temporary constitution Sunday defining the new president’s establishment, a move that sharpened the confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood and showed how the generals will uphold the lion’s share of power no substance who wins.
With assembly dissolved and martial law effectively in force, the generals granted themselves substantial authorities. They will be the de facto politicians, control the budget and will control who writes the enduring constitution that will define the country’s future.
An important question from the Saturday-Sunday runoff will be how their association will be with the new president.
Ahmad Shafiq, who was Mubarak’s last prime minister and is a previous air force commander, is seen as the generals’ favorite in the competition and would likely work closely with them. So closely that his opponent fears the result will be a continuance of the military-backed, authoritarian police situation that Mubarak ran for nearly 29 years.
A victory by his adversary, the conventional Islamist Mohammed Morsi, could interpret into a rockier tussle for spheres of power among his Muslim Brotherhood and the military. The Brotherhood has reached accommodation with the generals at times over the past 16 months since Mubarak’s fall, as it reach deals with Mubarak’s government itself.
But the group took a more insolent tone with the military Sunday in an obvious bid to rally the public to its side in the previous hours of voting after two days of seemingly tepid produce. It warned of complaint if Shafiq wins; heighten worries that each side will reject a victory by the additional.
It discarded last week’s order by the Supreme constitutional Court dissolving assembly, where they were the major party, as a “coup alongside the entire self-ruled process.”
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