CAIRO: Egypt's al-Wafd Party announced this week its commitment to the need not to increase the number of MPs in the founding Constitutional Assembly to draft the Constitution. They called for no more than 25 percent MPs of the total number of members of the committee in order to ensure the representation of all segements of society and spectra of political forces. El-Sayed Badawi, the head of the party, during a meeting with Andreas Hukinhov, a member of the German parliament and deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Party and his assistant, Hart-Mart Philip, that Egypt will pass the transition period successfully and that it will have a new president and a new constitution in July. Badawi noted that “there is consensus reached between 43 parties, including al-Wafd, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the al-Nour parties on the constitution, where these parties that signed the document of the Democratic Alliance, which lays the foundations for a modern civil state based on citizenship, democracy and the rule of law.” He explained that there is an agreement between the parties and political movements in Egypt, “on the first four chapters of the Egyptian Constitution, relating to the rights, duties and public freedoms,” adding that only the chapters addressing the powers of the president, and the system of the government and republic (parliamentary or presidential or semi-presidential), as well as the issue of separation of powers, “will witness a debate between political forces,” adding that he hoped “these matters would not constitute any obstacles and will be easily agreed upon.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/nqkiC Tags: Constitution, featured, Parliament, Wafd Section: Egypt, Latest News
