Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brother and winner of presidential elections in June, shocked the country by issuing a decree that assumes vastly widened powers for his office, including virtual immunity against judicial oversight.
The questions of the day are "How do we save the planet from the climate crisis?" and "What do we do about misogyny, racial profiling and police violence, and homophobic laws?" and "How do we check mass surveillance and the widening power of the state?" and "How do we bring down autocratic, human-rights-abusing regimes without leaving behind chaos and tragedy?" Those are the questions.
But so far his biggest reform has been to rewrite the Constitution to widen his powers and lengthen his potential time in office.
Instead of defining sweeping powers more tightly on the face of the bill, the government has taken the opportunity to widen the powers and place them in non-binding codes of practice.
When police stand accused of repressive behaviour in a number of spheres, while neglecting serious crimes including against women, it would be irresponsible to widen their powers.
The government will "widen the powers for representative bodies to act on behalf of their members to challenge grossly unfair payment terms".
Mr Morsi has inserted Brothers as provincial governors and ministerial under-secretaries while seeking to widen his powers of appointment in the courts, the state-owned banks, and the trade unions.
In an effort to consolidate his position and widen his power, Jogaila married the 12-year-old Polish queen Jadwiga and was crowned king of Poland in Kraków on Feb. 15, 1386, as Władysław II Jagiełło.
Aris Accornero, a professor of industrial sociology at Rome University, said the government's strategy was threefold: to weaken the unions' traditional allies among center-left political parties; to overhaul labor legislation; and to an extent dismantle traditional consensual methods of conflict resolution in order to widen government power.
The sultan has responded to the protests by promising to create 50,000 jobs and raising the possibility of widening the powers of a consultative council, which could be a predecessor of a parliament.
