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| CAIRO (Reuters) — Egypt’s interim head of state has set a speedy timetable for elections to drag the Arab world’s biggest country from crisis, after the military ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last week sparked a wave of bloody protests. | |
| A decree issued Monday by Adli Mansour pointed to a parliamentary ballot within about six months with a presidential vote to follow. However, it was faulted for repeating flaws in the 2011 transition plan that contributed to the current crisis. | A decree issued Monday by Adli Mansour pointed to a parliamentary ballot within about six months with a presidential vote to follow. However, it was faulted for repeating flaws in the 2011 transition plan that contributed to the current crisis. |
| Mr. Mansour decreed that Egypt will hold new parliamentary elections once amendments to its suspended constitution are approved in a referendum — a process that could take about six months, less than some people had expected. | |
| In what appeared to be an olive branch to Islamists, the decree included controversial language put into the constitution last year that defined the principles of Islamic sharia law. | In what appeared to be an olive branch to Islamists, the decree included controversial language put into the constitution last year that defined the principles of Islamic sharia law. |
| Al Nour, the country’s second-biggest Islamist group after the Muslim Brotherhood, said on Tuesday it would accept the choice of the former finance minister, Samir Radwan, as interim prime minister. | |
| Nader Bakkar, an Al Nour spokesman, said the party would accept Mr. Radwan because he met the party’s criteria that he be a ‘'technocrat'’ economist and have previous experience in government administration. | |
| The military-backed transitional administration is keen to win Al Nour’s support for a new government to show it is acceptable to Islamists after the army toppled Mr. Morsi last week. | |
| Al Nour had said last week it would not accept former United Nations diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister, deepening the turmoil surrounding the transition. | |
| Al Nour said on Monday it was pulling out of negotiations over the new government in response to the killing of dozens of pro-Morsi protesters. | |
| Nathan Brown, a leading expert on Egypt’s constitution at George Washington University in Washington, said that while Monday’s decree laid out a clear sequence for transition, it repeated many of the mistakes of the post-Mubarak process. | Nathan Brown, a leading expert on Egypt’s constitution at George Washington University in Washington, said that while Monday’s decree laid out a clear sequence for transition, it repeated many of the mistakes of the post-Mubarak process. |
| ‘'It was drawn up by an anonymous committee; it was issued by executive fiat; the timetable is rushed; the provisions for consultation are vague; and it promises inclusiveness but gives no clear procedural guidelines for it,'’ he told Reuters. | ‘'It was drawn up by an anonymous committee; it was issued by executive fiat; the timetable is rushed; the provisions for consultation are vague; and it promises inclusiveness but gives no clear procedural guidelines for it,'’ he told Reuters. |