The Muslim Brotherhood are the main losers from the decisions of the Constitutional Court. In fact, they used to dominate 47% of the Parliament seats and support their candidate for President Mohamed Morsi to face his opponent. The Muslim Brotherhood had a mixed reaction. They said that they would accept the ruling allowing Shafik to remain in the race and at the same time the group voiced its refusal to dissolve the legislative body. Essam el-Erian warned of such a move, saying that it would lead Egypt into a dark tunnel and such decisions might make some Egyptians take to the street. However, how will the Muslim Brotherhood deal with the consequences of such rulings? Clashes between demonstrators and the army will be inevitable and there will mass protests. He also pointed out that the fact that Egypt remains unstable is worrying and that the court rulings further foster insecurity. We can avoid the catastrophe if the competing political forces, the military, the Muslim Brotherhood, the other Islamic groups, the secular, leftist, liberal parties find a way to make up a government which enjoys popular and legal legitimacy. He pointed out that at a time when no political faction on the Egyptian scene enjoys the support of the majority, the coming government should be a coalition government which faces the challenge of building State institutions, and thus they can be up to the level of running a democratic country. In order to move forwards and achieve political transition in Egypt, the Egyptian authorities must guarantee political freedoms for all Egyptians as well as the freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly and the need to avoid arrests or trials of peaceful demonstrators or subjecting them to physical violence. Besides, the freedom of independent civil society organizations to criticize government policies and not be subject to prosecution and criminal investigations while carrying out their legitimate activities must be guaranteed.

Although the current political situation in Egypt is similar to the one that has prevailed before January general elections, some differences raise fear and concerns; the most important is the political forces' tendency to use the street and the people's rejection of some governmental decisions viewed as a reverberation of the ousted regime and a clear signal of the sixteen month-revolution's failure to achieve its goals. These political forces consider that defending the revolution against attempts to thwart it as their first duty consists and that's why many people have re-packed the Tahrir Square.

Where is the constitution based upon which the court gave this ruling?

Why did this happen from the start? Is Egypt a small, new country that would make these mistakes? What about the millions that were spent? What about the hope that the people were living in and waiting for a solution to their problems?