Egypt Names New Constitution Panel
Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour announced a 50-member panel Sunday to draw up a revised constitution but without the inclusion of ousted president Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood which declined to take part.
A disputed constitution drafted under Morsi was approved in a December 2012 referendum without only a 33-percent turnout.
Mansour's spokesman Ehab al-Badaoui read out the 50 names of the new panel at a1 press conference in Cairo.
The Brotherhood has refused to take part, arguing that Egypt's new authorities were illegitimate since the army ousted Morsi on July 3 after a wave of popular protests.
But the Islamists are represented by the Salafist party al-Nour, which supported Morsi's ouster, sitting alongside al-Azhar, the highest authority in Sunni Islam, and Christian churches.
The new panel has 60 days to submit a final version of the revised constitution to the interim president, who in turn has 30 days to announce the date of a referendum.
Source: Agence France Presse
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