Reply #32: In theory, the Egyptian constitution says the speaker is meant to take over [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

“What they’re asking cannot be done,” one senior Egyptian official said, citing clauses in the Egyptian Constitution that bar the vice president from assuming power. Under the Constitution, the speaker of Parliament would succeed the president. “That’s my technical answer,” the official added. “My political answer is they should mind their own business.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/world/middleeast/04diplomacy.html

But BBC radio is now reporting this as "the army is in control; they will decide what happens now".