Lawyer predicts dissolution of Brotherhood party
CAIRO
A member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has expected a court ruling dissolving the party.
"The policy of excluding the Brotherhood and FJP from the political scene has become a reality," FJP's legal committee member Ahmed Nahed told Anadolu Agency.
The administrative Court is due on Saturday to look into eleven legal lawsuits for the dissolution of the FJP.
The court will also look into a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of Al-Nour Party, the political arm of the Salafist Call.
The State Commissioners Authority has recommended the dissolution of the FJP, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Nahed said that the party lawyers will challenge the SCA recommendation of dissolving the party.
"But regardless of any move, I think there is a drive to dissolve the party," he added.
The FJP, launched in 2011, was chaired by ousted President Mohamed Morsi before his 2012 presidential election victory.
The party went on to sweep elections for both chambers of parliament in Egypt's first post-revolution polls following the 2011 ouster of long-serving president Hosni Mubarak.
On September 23, Egypt's court of urgent matters ordered the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood Society and the banning of the group's activities.
Nahed said that the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement from which Morsi hails, will not form a new party after the FJP was dissolved.
"We are now in a new Mubarak era," he added.
By Hussein Qabani
englishnews@aa.com.tr
