In April , a couple of months prior to Morsi 's inauguration , the Administrative Court suspended a constituent assembly previously appointed in March without giving any clear reasons for this decision and which the Brotherhood claimed was politically motivated . In mid-June however , another 100-member assembly was officially selected a week after a deal was reached between the ruling military council and representatives of 22 parties . Tensions later resumed after a court ruled that the entire Islamist-dominated parliament was illegally elected and ordered the body to dissolve , which angered the Brotherhood and Mohamed Beltagy called it a " full-fledged coup " . On 18 June , the SCAF issued a supplementary constitutional declaration that limits the to-be president 's power over the military and gives it complete control over all army decisions . However , those controversial moves never changed the status of the constituent assembly as it was elected by the Shura Council not by parliament . Also , the same day the military delivered its statement , Hossam El-Gheriany was elected as chairman of the assembly . Military chief Mohamed Hussein Tantawi was forced to retire by Morsi on 12 August , a month and a half after the latter was elected and a week after a militant attack in Sinai that had the military preoccupied , leaving the constituent assembly 's drafting process unchallenged
a militant attack in Sinai
August 2012 Sinai attack
June 2013 Egyptian protests