Arabic: المجلس الاعلى للقوات المسلحة The Supreme Council of the Armed forces (SCAF) is a body of senior military officials. The administration of Egypt was delegated to the council by former President Hosni Mubarak upon his resignation on February 11, 2011. The President of Egypt serves as the Chairman of the council. Currently the council is headed by Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. The SCAF consists of 20 members: • Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi – Chairman – Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces - Minister of Defense and Military Production • Lt. General Sami Hafez Anan – Deputy Chairman – Armed Forces chief of staff • Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish – Navy commander in chief • Air Marshal Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed – Air Force commander • Lt. General Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen – Commander of the Air Defense • Major General Hassan al-Rowini – Commander of the Central Military Zone • Major General Ismail Atman – Director of the Morale Affairs Department • Major General Mohsen al-Fangary – Assistant Defense Minister • Major General Mohammed Abdel Nabi – Commander of the Border Guard • Major General Mohamed Hegazy – Commander of the Second Field Army • Major General Sedky Sobhy – Commander of the Third Field Army • Major General Hassan Mohammed Ahmed - Commander of the Northern Military Zone • Major General Mohsen El-Shazly - Commander of the Southern Military Zone • Major General Mahmoud Ibrahim Hegazy - Commander of the Western Military Zone • In addition to 6 other military commanders (Possibly including the 4 chiefs of staff of the 4 branches of the Egyptian Armed Forces) As per Article 56 of the Constitutional Declaration announced in March 2011, the powers of the SCAF are as follows: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces runs the affairs of the State. Under this framework it undertakes the following authorities: 1- Legislation 2- Approving the general policy of the State and the State's budget and supervising its implementation. 3- Selecting the appointed members of the People's Assembly. 4- Convoying the People's Assembly and Shura Council ordinary session and its adjourning and convening an extraordinary session and its adjourning. 5- The right to issue laws or objecting them. 6- Representing the State internally and externally and signing international agreements and treaties and they are considered part of the legal system of the State. 7- Appointing the prime minister and his deputies, the ministers and their deputies and relieving them from their posts. 8- Appointing civil and military civil servants and political representatives and relieving them in line with the law and approving political representatives of foreign countries 9- Giving amnesty from a punishment or commuting it. Complete pardon should not be extended except with a law. 10- Other powers and capacities of the president of the republic in accordance with the laws and regulations. The council has the right to entrust its chief or any of its members to undertake any of its tasks.
