Muslim Brotherhood pressures Egyptian generals to give up power.
To them, naturally. I hope the Muslim Brotherhood plans on ruling as a secular party. As doubtful as that seems, the actual on-the-ground revolutionaries support the democratically elected MB president-elect. It's their country - their revolution - so let's hope MB ain't a theocratic wolf in secular sheep's clothing. For all our sakes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/18/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-warning
Chants of "God is great" and "down with military rule" rang out and supporters spilled out into the streets to celebrate. Their headquarters sit across the road from the interior ministry, which once housed many Brotherhood members behind its high walls. Shafiq's team dismissed the Brotherhood's celebrations as premature and said their own tallies suggested that a win for their candidate was "beyond all doubt". Initial results contain a margin of error of about two percentage points and both sides can launch appeals against the conduct of the vote before official results are announced on Thursday. But by Monday evening it seemed increasingly likely that Morsi had done enough to become the first democratically elected president in Egypt's history.
Revolutionaries expressed optimism that that the twists and turns of the past week would reanimate the struggle for change. "I'm not pessimistic at all," said Salma Said, a 26-year-old campaigner with the alternative media collective Mosireen. "I think the fight is going to be tougher, just like any game gets harder in the later levels, but what the revolutionaries really need to do now is unite.
"People are already making lists of urgent demands to put to the new president and which must be met within the next few months. Now we can stop being distracted by elections and get back to work on what's really needed: releasing military prisoners, retrying those convicted in military courts, implementing a minimum and maximum wage, and so on."
Said said the Brotherhood had consistently weakened the revolutionary front but a [MB candidate Mohamed] Morsi victory was preferable to a [former Mubarak PM Ahmed] Shafiq one because it opened up new political space and allowed revolutionaries to move beyond rallies in Tahrir Square and engage with Egyptians in bigger and more creative ways.