Referendum. Ein Referendum. Eine Volksabstimmung in Ägypten. Und dann noch darüber, ob der verdammte Militärrat weiter an der Macht bleiben soll. Mein Gott, wie viele Apfelbäume in Ägypten sind da geplündert und wie viele Äppel gesammelt worden, um sie dem auf den Kopf zu werfen, der die Idee gehabt hat? Ein Referendum. Das Volk soll entscheiden, ob der verdammte Militärrat an der Macht bleibt? Und das nach nur 30 oder 40 Leichen?

In Ägypten hat der Oberste Militärrat Gespräche mit mehreren politischen Gruppierungen geführt.

Im Anschluss daran erklärte der Militärrat seine Bereitschaft zum Machtverzicht – sofern das Volk in einem Referendum dafür stimme.

“Clearly this is a step backwards in terms of achieving political stability,” said Antoon De Klerk, a London-based economist who helps manage $5 billion in emerging-market debt at Investec Asset Management…

Egypt‘s military rulers are ready to cede power if voters choose to do so through a referendum

Tantawi said the army was “completely ready to hand over responsibility immediately, and to return to its original mission of protecting the nation if the nation wants that, via a popular referendum, if need be.”

Egypt’s military ruler floats idea of a referendum on an immediate power transfer.

In the wake of a violent weekend in Egypt, Egypt’s military ruler, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said he would allow a referendum on the immediate transfer of power to a civilian authority if people demand it

However, Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi has indicated military rule could continue if people in Egypt endorse it through a referendum.

A roar of defiance rippled through Cairo‘s Tahrir Square on Tuesday night as thousands of protesters demanding an end to army rule spurned an offer from Egypt‘s military leader to let the people decide in a referendum.

Egypt‘s ruling generals have said they are prepared to hold a referendum on immediately transferring power to civilian authority if people demand it.

Tantawi äußerte zudem die Bereitschaft, wenn nötig die Macht sofort abzugeben, sollte das in einem Referendum beschlossen werden.

Merkel is, after all, about the most important person in the world right now. As leader of the eurozone‘s undisputed economic powerhouse, she in effect holds the future financial wellbeing of all of us in her hands. And the worry is she‘s not up to the job. For all her undoubted qualities and undimmed domestic popularity (the pollsters, certainly, see no hint of a rival who could threaten her re-election in 2013, for a third successive term), Merkel – a pale, irredeemably frumpy, maddeningly hard-to-pin-down shadow of an Adenauer, a Brandt, a Kohl – is totally not what‘s needed, say her critics.

The deal may prove popular among the public, where concern for a return to stability runs high. But it is unlikely to satisfy the huge crowds of protestors who have gathered in Tahrir Square for days, demanding that the military council immediately surrender more of its power to a new civilian government. It leaves the civilian government reporting to the military — effectively a continuation of what amounts to martial law in civilian clothes — until June.

Der ehemalige IAEA-Chef und einer der einflussreichsten Politiker Ägyptens, Mohammed el-Baradei, kann zum Chef der Regierung der nationalen Rettung werden, teilen ägyptische Medien unter Berufung auf verschiedene politische Kräfte des Landes mit.

De-facto ruler Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi will address Egypt within the hour. News agencies report that Tantawi is expected to announce plans to form a „national salvation“ cabinet

Cairo: Rattled by a fresh round of protests, Egypt’s military is considering the possibility of roping in former IAEA chief and activist Mohamed ElBaradei as the new prime minister of the country.

Delegates at a crisis meeting between political groups and the military said parliamentary elections next week would go ahead as scheduled.

They said presidential elections would take place before the end of June next year – a key demand of protesters.

The BBC‘s Kevin Connolly in Cairo says the readiness to bring forward presidential elections appears to be a major concession from the military.

Am Nachmittag wollen wieder Millionen Ägypter gegen die Macht des Militärrats demonstrieren. Die Armee reagiert immer brutaler auf den Widerstand.

Nach dem gewaltsamen Vorgehen gegen Demonstranten hat Ägyptens Militär bei der Bevölkerung seinen guten Ruf vom Frühjahr verloren. Und als langjährige Partner der Amerikaner bringen die Generäle nun Washington in Schwierigkeiten: In Kairos Zentrum wabern Kampfstoffe aus amerikanischer Herstellung.