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| Strong Egypt Party rejects constitutional declaration |
| 2013-07-12 |
| [Al Ahram] Strong Egypt Party has announced its refusal of the constitutional declaration issued by interim president Adly Mansour earlier this week. In a statement released Thursday, the party said among its main reasons for rejecting the declaration was that it gave the interim president executive, legislative and constitutional powers. "This establishes a dictatorship previously rejected by all political democratic forces when the elected president had all these powers," Strong Egypt Party said, referring to the political parties and forces that stood against ousted president Mohamed Morsi's constitutional declaration in November 2012 that also gave him full authority. The party also rejected the constitution for giving the interim president the power to appoint the members of the constitutional amendments committee."The party preferred to have the constitutional amendment members elected," read the statement. "A vague article allowing for detention on reasons of allegedly protecting the society's 'security' in the constitutional declaration is considered a huge setback in the course of freedom," said the party in the statement, naming another reason for their refusal. Strong Egypt Party also rejected the constitutional declaration because it did not explicitly place a ban on military trials of civilians, referring to Article 19. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Strong Egypt is a political party initiated by the former Muslim Brotherhood member and presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. The party describes itself as an economically progressive and socially moderate political group. However, it does not endorse the politics of international loans, believing that it is not the solution to the economic problems of Egypt. - Wikipedia |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-07-12 10:26 |