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Brotherhood leader: Final voting on constitution to begin next week
Sun, 07/10/2012 - 13:38
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Muslim Brotherhood leader and Constituent Assembly member Sobhi Saleh said that the assembly’s final voting on the draft constitution will begin next week, paving the way for the final document to be ready in mid-November.
The constitution will be presented to committees of experts before the president issues a decree to put it up for a popular referendum.
Regarding the lawsuits demanding the Constituent Assembly’s dissolution, Saleh told Al-Arabiya website Saturday, “The assembly does its job apart from those cases, because it sees [its work] as a patriotic work that should not be stopped pending the [rulings] in those cases.”
Saleh added that the judicial ruling to dissolve the first Constituent Assembly was politically motivated, and that demands to dissolve the second iteration are unjustified.
The second formation of the Constituent Assembly has been drafting the post-Mubarak constitution since June, amid attacks from liberal parties over the body’s domination by Islamists.
An administrative court is currently considering lawsuits demanding the dissolution of the assembly because it includes members of Parliament, which violates the Constitutional Declaration that has governed the country since March 2011.
