CAIRO: Egypt's Free Front for Peaceful Change Movement accused in a statement on Tuesday the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of attempts to “disrupt the drafting of the constitution, and the selection of the members of the Constituent Assembly, so as to ensure controlling the powers of the next president depending on the outcome of the presidential elections. The movement continued, noting that the outline of the plan of the Muslim Brotherhood group in case its presidential candidate, Mohamed Morsi, won in the presidential race, “will be to outline a presidential system or semi-parliamentary of the republic, in the constitution mixed system.” but in case any other candidate won, “their choice will be a parliamentary system and the weakening of the powers of the president and the parliament would have more power.” The Front said that there have been attempts and “clear steps carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood since the beginning of the revolution and after the referendum on March 19, to take over power in Egypt,” which it said could be seen in “seeking to obtain a majority of the parliament, and the nomination of Khairat El Shater and then Mohammed Morsi for presidential elections president,” as well as their attempts to “monopolize the new constitution,” which was suspended by a court ruling. The statement added: “Today, they [MB] began a new and more grave plot against Egypt, which revealed their attempts to gain more political privileges, beyond what we expected and the Muslim Brotherhood plot is summarized in deliberately to disrupt the formation of the Constitution and suspending it in order to control the public order of the state in accordance with the outcome of the election results so that if their candidate wins and that they outline the system of the republic according to a presidential or a mixed system.” “And if their candidate fails, they would resort to the parliamentary system, merely to take over the powers of the presidency.”
