Mursi move risks conflict

Egypt’s parliamentary speaker said the chamber would reconvene today, risking a showdown with the army after the new, Islamist president defied the generals by quashing the dissolution of the legislature they had ordered last month.

Quoted by the state news agency, Saad al-Katatni, who like President Mohamed Mursi hails from the long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood, said the lower house would sit this morning, overturning a court judgment and military order issued a month ago, before Mursi’s election.

The move, heralded by a decree issued by Mursi on Sunday, barely a week after he took office, threatens Egypt with fresh political uncertainty.