CAIRO: Egypt supporters of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) have called for a military president to lead the country. Thousands of pro-military junta protesters gathered over the weekend to show their support for SCAF in the Cairo neighborhood of Abbassiya to call for “stability” and to “reject the disruptive calls for protests and strikes that threaten the security and safety of society.” Their protest, on Saturday, came as scores of , university students and labor unions joined a nationwide strike against the military junta. The pro-SCAF protesters called for supporting the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and the emergency government and “the steps taken to administer the country in this critical period, until the transfer of power to an elected civilian authority, according to the will of the people.” They lashed out against the anti-military protesters and revolutionary movements and what they called “the forces that seek to demolish the state through systematic attacks against the ministry of interior and insulting the Egyptian judiciary and questioning the legitimacy of the parliament through claims that it does not represent all segments of the society and revolutionary forces and the attempts to undermine the prestige and dignity of the armed forces, which supported the revolution and supported the demands of citizens,” they said during their protests in support of SCAF. They also called on Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the SCAF, to nominate one of the members of the military junta for presidential elections, chanting, “Military … military … not a civil state.” They also demanded Tantawi respond strongly and firmly to the threats of American Congressmen of ending aid to Egypt. The protesters also chanted against Mohamed ElBaradei, the reformist leader and former Presidential hopeful, accusing him of “treason and implementing an American scheme to foment unrest and chaos in Egypt.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/tfv7X Tags: Elections, featured, President, SCAF Section: Egypt, Latest News
