Editing Gamal Abdel Nasser (section)

=== Disputes with Naguib ===
[[File:Nageeb & nasser.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Two smiling men in military uniform seated in an open-top automobile. The first man on the left is pointing his hand in a gesture. Behind the automobile are men in uniform walking away from the vehicle|Nasser (right) and [[Mohamed Naguib]] (left) during celebrations marking the second anniversary of the 1952 revolution, July 1954]]
[[File:Nasser and Naguib Saluting.tif|thumb|alt=Five men in military uniforms standing in a row, with the three in the middle saluting|Nasser and Naguib saluting at the opening of the [[Suez Canal]]]]
[[File:Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Muslim Brotherhood (subtitled).webm|thumb|right|alt=Nasser laughing at the Muslim Brotherhood for suggesting in 1953 that women should be required to wear the hijab and that Islamic law should be enforced across the country.|Nasser laughing at the Muslim Brotherhood for suggesting in 1953 that women should be required to wear the hijab and that Islamic law should be enforced across the country.]]
In January 1953, Nasser overcame opposition from Naguib and banned all political parties,<ref name="Aburish46-7">{{Harvnb|Aburish|2004|pp=46–47}}</ref> creating a one-party system under the Liberation Rally, a loosely structured movement whose chief task was to organize pro-RCC rallies and lectures,<ref name="Kandil22">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=22}}</ref> with Nasser its [[secretary-general]].<ref>{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=23}}</ref> Despite the dissolution order, Nasser was the only RCC member who still favored holding parliamentary elections, according to his fellow officer [[Abdel Latif Boghdadi (politician)|Abdel Latif Boghdadi]].<ref name="Aburish46-7" /> Although outvoted, he still advocated holding elections by 1956.<ref name="Aburish46-7" /> In March 1953, Nasser led the Egyptian delegation negotiating a British withdrawal from the Suez Canal.<ref name="Aburish51">{{Harvnb|Aburish|2004|p=51}}</ref>

When Naguib began showing signs of independence from Nasser by distancing himself from the RCC's land reform decrees and drawing closer to Egypt's established political forces, namely the Wafd and the Brotherhood,<ref name="Kandil27">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=27}}</ref> Nasser resolved to depose him.<ref name="Aburish51" /> In June, Nasser took control of the interior ministry post from Naguib loyalist [[Sulayman Hafez]],<ref name="Kandil27" /> and pressured Naguib to conclude the abolition of the monarchy.<ref name="Aburish51" />

On 25 February 1954, Naguib announced his resignation after the RCC held an official meeting without his presence two days prior.<ref name="Kandil32">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=32}}</ref> On 26 February, Nasser accepted the resignation, put Naguib under house arrest,<ref name="Kandil32" /> and the RCC proclaimed Nasser as both RCC chairman and prime minister.<ref>{{Harvnb|Nutting|1972|p=60}}</ref> As Naguib intended, a mutiny immediately followed, demanding Naguib's reinstatement and the RCC's dissolution.<ref name="Kandil32" /> While visiting the striking officers at Military Headquarters (GHQ) to call for the mutiny's end, Nasser was initially intimidated into accepting their demands.<ref name="Kandil33">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=33}}</ref> However, on 27 February, Nasser's supporters in the army launched a raid on the GHQ, ending the mutiny.<ref>{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=34}}</ref> Later that day, hundreds of thousands of protesters, mainly belonging to the Brotherhood, called for Naguib's return and Nasser's imprisonment.<ref name="Kandil35">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=35}}</ref> In response, a sizable group within the RCC, led by Khaled Mohieddin, demanded Naguib's release and return to the presidency.<ref name="Aburish51" /> Nasser acquiesced, but delayed Naguib's reinstatement until 4 March, allowing him to promote Amer to Commander of the Armed Forces—a position formerly occupied by Naguib.<ref name="Aburish52">{{Harvnb|Aburish|2004|p=52}}</ref>

On 5 March, Nasser's security coterie arrested thousands of participants in the uprising.<ref name="Kandil35" /> As a ruse to rally opposition against a return to the pre-1952 order, the RCC decreed an end to restrictions on monarchy-era parties and the Free Officers' withdrawal from politics.<ref name="Kandil35" /> The RCC succeeded in provoking the beneficiaries of the revolution, namely the workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois, to oppose the decrees,<ref name="Kandil36">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=36}}</ref> with one million transport workers launching a strike and thousands of peasants entering Cairo in protest in late March.<ref name="Kandil38">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=38}}</ref> Naguib sought to crack down on the protesters, but his requests were rebuffed by the heads of the security forces.<ref name="Kandil39" /> On 29 March, Nasser announced the decrees' revocation in response to the "impulse of the street".<ref name="Kandil39">{{Harvnb|Kandil|2012|p=39}}</ref> Between April and June, hundreds of Naguib's supporters in the military were either arrested or dismissed, and Mohieddin was informally exiled to [[Switzerland]] to represent the RCC abroad.<ref name="Kandil39" /> [[King Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] attempted to mend relations between Nasser and Naguib, but to no avail.<ref name="Aburish53">{{Harvnb|Aburish|2004|pp=52–53}}</ref>