Court challenges Egyptian president, worsening crisis in the country.
The court reiterated on Monday that it maintains its decision to dissolve Parliament, rejecting the decree issued by Mohamed Morsi.
247 with international agencies - Egypt is already experiencing a political crisis just over a week after the inauguration of the new president. The country's Supreme Court rejected, this Monday (9), Mohamed Mursi's order to reinstate parliament.
On Sunday, Mursi decreed the restoration of parliament; a clear challenge to the Military Junta, which before the presidential election sent troops to close the legislature, based on a Supreme Court decision that had deemed the parliamentary election illegal.
Nearly 500 members of parliament lost their seats.
According to Jon Leyne, a BBC analyst in Cairo, the Supreme Court's position represents more of an unfolding of the country's attempt to adjust to a new power configuration than the beginning of an open confrontation.
The expert recalls that, weeks ago, the Supreme Court only ruled that part of the parliamentary elections, won by the Muslim Brotherhood (Morsi's party), was unconstitutional. The decision to dissolve Parliament entirely was made by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
In a statement, the court made it clear that it "is not a party involved in any political confrontation."
Therefore, the impasse would be much more focused on an attempt by the military, allied with secular sectors, to weaken the government, composed of religious sectors, than on a direct clash between the new leader of the Executive branch and the highest Egyptian court.