Egyptian Constitutional stand of continues

Dimanche 2 Décembre 2012

President Morsi received the draft constitition on Saturday and annouced that a referendum on the constitution would be held on 15 December.
Egyptian Constitutional stand of continues
The constitutional court was surrounded by hundreds of supporters from the Muslim Brotherhood and the FJP party.The judges suspended the activities of the court which was considering  whether to dissolve both the constituent assembly that passed the draft constitution and the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament, the Shura Council. President Morsi's decree was passed with the intention of making any such rulings unenforceable.

The judges are now on strike and join Morsi's decree was passed with the intention of making any such rulings unenforceable.Several politicalparties who have declared their intention tomarch peacefully on the Presidential palace in Heliopolis in protest against the presidential decree which  took  absolute powers for the President and the draft constitution.The statement was signed by eighteen political parties and groups, including the Constitution Party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, the Free Egyptians Party, the National Front for Justice and Democracy, the 6 April youth movement, the Democratic Front and the Kefaya movement, Al Ahram reported.

"This is a final warning to Mohamed Morsi, who was democratically elected president: his policies, which favour his party and group, will cause the dissolution of his legitimacy," read the statement.
 

Large numbers of the President's supporters demonstrated on Saturday supporting the President's decree and the draft constitution saying that the islamists were the majority in the country. Egypt's political process remains polarised between islamists and secular parties. Islamist Parties won a majority of seats in the last  elections to the lower and upper houses of parliament.



Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Egyptian-Consti...

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