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Home›News Watch›Egypt’s IMF loan deal postponed after Mohamed Morsi scraps tax increases

Egypt’s IMF loan deal postponed after Mohamed Morsi scraps tax increases

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December 12, 2012
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Political crisis deepens as judges refuse to oversee referendum on new constitution proposed by president

An International Monetary Fund loan to Egypt has been delayed until next month, intensifying the political crisis gripping the country.

The delay, announced on Tuesday, came as judges voted decisively against overseeing the referendum on the controversial new constitution.

Ahmed El Zend, the head of the judges club, an unofficial body with most of Egypt’s judges among its members, said 90% had decided not to supervise the referendum. However, the high elections commission, the judicial body supervising the referendum, said there were enough judges on board to oversee the voting but only by staging the referendum in two phases, on 15 December and 22 December.

In a further sign of the seriousness of the country’s political stalemate, the defence minister, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, called for a “national dialogue meeting” to try to find consensus between the Muslim Brotherhood and opposition groups.

The delay in the $4.8bn (£3bn) loan, which was agreed last month, occurs amid mounting protests against the government, which has faced accusations that it is behaving in an authoritarian fashion by issuing decrees and attempting to push through a new constitution.

As rival factions gathered in Cairo for more demonstrations, the finance minister, Mumtaz al-Said, said the delay in the loan agreement was intended to allow time to explain a heavily criticised package of economic austerity measures to the Egyptian people. “Of course the delay will have some economic impact, but we are discussing necessary measures [to address that] during the coming period,” he told Reuters. “I am optimistic … everything will be well, God willing.”

On Monday, Egypt’s president, Mohamed Morsi, withdrew planned tax increases, which are seen as vital for the loan to go ahead.

Opposition groups, already angry over other measures taken by Morsi, greeted the tax measures, which included duties on alcoholic drinks, cigarettes and a range of goods and services, with furious criticism.

The main opposition bloc, the National Salvation Front (NSF), is to decide on Wednesday whether to boycott the referendum or campaign for a no vote.

The latest unrest has claimed seven lives in clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood and opponents, who are also besieging the presidential palace.

The elite Republican Guard, which protects the palace, has yet to use force to keep protesters away from the graffiti-daubed building, now ringed with tanks, barbed wire and concrete barricades.

The army has told all sides to resolve their differences through dialogue, saying it would not allow Egypt to enter a “dark tunnel”.

For the period of the referendum, the army has been granted police powers by Morsi, allowing it to arrest civilians.

However, in the latest reversal for Morsi, the presidency yesterday was forced on Tuesday to clarify that anyone arrested by the militaryarmy would face civil rather than military courts.

The military has portrayed itself as the guarantor of the nation’s security but so far it has shown no appetite for a return to the bruisingfrontline political role it played after the fall of the country’s former leader Hosni Mubarak, which severely damaged its standing.

Morsi and his key allies in the Muslim Brotherhood have stumbled through a series of worsening crises since he was praised for his key role in mediating a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

In the immediate aftermath Morsi granted himself sweeping new powers that saw the biggest demonstration in Egypt since the revolution almost two years ago sweptthat ousted the country authoritarian former leader Hosni Mubarak.

In continuing street violence yesterday, masked men attacked a sit-in in the early hours of theTuesday morning, firing bird-shot at the protesters.

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