| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa North |
| Egypt revises its Constitution |
| 2011-02-16 |
| [Ennahar] The Egyptian army, in charge of the country since the fall of geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, has given ten days on Tuesday to a committee of lawyers to amend the Constitution and warned that further strikes would be "disastrous" for the country. The supreme council of the armed forces, to whom Mubarak has entrusted the reins of the country by resigning Friday, suspended Sunday the constitution and dissolved Parliament, promising democratic elections in the coming months. The army appointed a commission to revise the Constitution who "must finish work in ten days," according to an official statement. Its members met for the first time on Tuesday. "We will revise the Constitution to remove all restrictions and obstacles and to meet the aspirations of the revolution and the people," said one of the members of this commission, Sobhi Saleh, lawyer and former member of Moslem Brüderbund. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It gets better: Egypt's new ruling military council has appointed an Islamist judge to head the committee drawing up a new constitution. Tarek al-Bishry, the chairman of the constitutional panel, is a respected judge who criticised former president Hosni Mubarak and is regarded as moderate in his views. But he has been associated with Al-Wasat, an offshoot of the Brotherhood. He has selected a committee made up mainly of judges and politicians, including a judge who is a Coptic Christian, but also a former Muslim Brotherhood MP. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-02-16 01:36 |