Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ( Arabic المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة, DMG al-Maǧlis al-ʾaʿlā li-l-quwwāt al-musallaḥa ; English Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , SCAF for short ) of Egypt consists of 18 high-ranking officers who constituted themselves as political rulers over the ministers during the revolution in Egypt in 2011 . According to their statements, the aim was to temporarily replace the resigned long-time President Husni Mubarak . In addition to the previous military minister, this includes the commanders-in-chief of the armed forces and several other high-ranking officers.

Critical cartoon by Carlos Latuff (2011) on the Council's action against the introduction of democracy

Position in the state

After his resignation, the military council replaced the dictatorial ruling Egyptian President Mubarak and his deputy Suleiman . In this function, the body exists outside of the usual military command structures. The commanders-in-chief and commanders continue to exercise their military functions.

Members

He sits down u. a. together from:

• Chairman Mohammed Hussein Tantawi - Defense Minister and Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, in office until August 12, 2012
• Colonel-General Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi - Chairman from August 12, 2012
• General Mohsen al-Fanagry - Deputy Minister of Defense
• Major General Mohammed al-Assar - Deputy Minister of Defense for Armaments Affairs
• Lieutenant General Sami Hafez Enan (Anan) - Chief of Staff of the Army
• Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish - Navy Commander
• Air Marshal Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed - Chief of Staff of the Air Force
• General Mohammed Abdel Nabi - Commander of the border troops
• Lieutenant General Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen - Air Defense Commander
• General Ismail Othman - General Staff Officer for National Moral Defense
• General Hassan al-Rwini - Commander of the Central Military Zone
• General Mohammed Hegazy - Commander of the 3rd Field Army
• General Sobhy Sedky - Commander of the 2nd Field Army
• Seven commanders from the North, South and West Military Zones

activities

On March 19, 2011, the Military Council put a committee drafted constitutional amendment up for election .

Since the fall of Mubarak, the military council has been responsible for cracking down on freedom of expression in Egypt. To deter u. a. The controversial blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad in Egypt , who advocates peaceful Arab-Israeli coexistence , was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a military court in a secret, express trial. He reported on his blog that the Egyptian army purposely fueled conflicts between Christians and Muslims in order to make political capital out of them.

At the end of March 2011, he passed a law banning protests that impair the smooth functioning of institutions or the economy. The law was less than four hours old when the military was already applying it and cleared the occupation of Cairo University.

According to the Military Council, democratic parliamentary elections are to be held in three phases from November 28, 2011 to January 10, 2012. The second chamber of parliament (Shura Council) should also be elected in three stages from January 29, 2012.

At the beginning of October 2011, the military council changed controversial electoral law paragraphs.

On June 15, 2012 - one day before the date of the runoff election for the Egyptian president - the military council dissolved the parliament that had emerged from the first parliamentary elections after the fall of Mubarak , after its establishment had been declared unconstitutional by the Egyptian Supreme Court the previous day because it was not the conditions for a third of the places to be filled by so-called “independents” had been met. The military council initiated that the members of parliament were denied access to it.

See also

• Political system of Egypt
• Schafiq cabinet (since January 29, 2011)
• List of Prime Ministers of Egypt
• Majlis

literature

• Matthias Gebauer: Egypt's Army - The uncanny power on the Nile , from spiegel.de, February 12, 2011

Web links

• The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

Individual evidence

1. ^ Formation of the Armed Forces Supreme Council , sis.gov.eg, Feb. 14, 2011, Internet source no longer available: “SIS is currently in the process of updating its site. Request your feedback. Kindly send to [e-mail] "
2. ↑ President Morsi dismisses army chief Tantawi. Scandal in Egypt. NZZ Online , August 12, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2020 . 
3. ^ Democracy movement drives Mubarak out of office. Reuters , November 2, 2011, accessed August 12, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Egypt's president breaks the power of the military. Defense Minister Tantawi sacked. Sueddeutsche Zeitung , August 12, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Egypt's Sherif Ismail cabinet with 16 new faces sworn in by President Sisi. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 
6. ^ Egypt State Information Service: Formation of the Armed Forces Supreme Council. . February 14, 2011. Archived from the original on February 13, 2011. Retrieved on February 14, 2011.Archived at webcite at
7. ↑ The army and the people wasn't ever one hand. Retrieved April 12, 2011 .  
8. ↑ Egyptian blogger atone for criticism of the army. Spiegel Online , April 11, 2011, accessed April 12, 2011 .  
9. ↑ "The dictator is gone, but not the dictatorship". Telepolis , April 6, 2011, accessed April 12, 2011 .  
10. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzkultur/artikel/1/das-ende-der-kuesse/ The end of kisses In: taz of April 2, 2011
11. ↑ tagesschau.de (as of September 27, 2011): Election date for the new parliament is set ( Memento of September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Tagesschau of Swiss television: Egypt's military council changes controversial electoral law
13. ↑ SCAF formally disbands parliament Egypt , report on Al Jazeera from 15 June 2012