(Washington Post) Leila Fadel and Ingy Hassieb - Liberals and Islamists in Egypt announced a temporary agreement Monday on a power-sharing plan that would install a Muslim Brotherhood leader as speaker of the country's newly elected parliament. Under the agreement, representatives of the Salafist Nour party and the liberal al-Wafd party would serve as deputy speakers. The People's Assembly will convene for the first time next Monday, but its powers are unclear and will be laid out in a still-unwritten constitution. Egypt's military rulers have made clear that they would like to oversee the constitution-writing process.
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