2/12/2017 The revolution continues: Morsi’s miscalculations and the Ikhwan’s impasse | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/andrea-teti-vivienne-matthies-boon-gennaro-gervasio/revolution-continues-morsi%e2%80%99s-miscalculations-and 1/5 openDemocracy oDUK oDR oD 50.50 democraciaAbierta Transformation CanEuropeMakeIt? More The revolution continues: Morsi’s miscalculations and the Ikhwan’s impasse ANDREA TETI, VIVIENNE MATTHIES-BOON, and GENNARO GERVASIO 3 December 2012 After President Morsi’s Constitutional Declaration providing him with unprecedented sweeping powers, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt faces unprecedented protests. Is this a sign of its political weakness? Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood may have seriously overestimated the Islamist movement’s grip over Egyptians’ allegiances. Having passed a decree which awarded the presidency both legislative and executive powers, as well as rendering the President himself immune from judicial oversight, the Brotherhood now has on its hands protest as serious as any which a post-Mubarak government has faced. Several times, since the January Revolution’s heady days, have opposition groups called for milioneyya, million- man marches, but rarely have these resonated with the broader public. The President’s power-grab, however, seems to have united disparate groups in protests which were not only well-attended in Cairo, but across the country. The only precedent for such intense opposition was nearly exactly one year ago, during the protests – and running battles – on Cairo’s Muhammad Mahmoud Street. But even then there was not the nation-wide breadth of protest seen on November 28. Protestors in Tahrir Square. Nameer Galal/Demotix. All rights reserved. A power grab too far? The Constitutional Declaration itself contains a provision that undermines judicial oversight of both legislative and executive powers, by preventing the judiciary from either dissolving the upper house parliament (as they have done, claiming the electoral law to have been unconstitutional) or from impinging on About Submit Login or Register Gender Politics Religion Women, Peace & Security People on the Move Our Africa AIDS Gender & Human Rights More