CAIRO: Egypt's Constitution for all Egyptians Front, which includes more than 30 political parties and revolutionary coalitions, said in a statement issued on Monday that the most serious risks and challenges facing the revolution are the religious forces, “Islamist parties and the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood over Parliament's chambers and the Constituent Assembly entrusted with the development of the country's new constitution.” It continued that the Brotherhood's insistence on maintaining their hegemony over the constitution, “which prompted all the forces and the national parties and gatherings of youth and cultural artistic organizations and women's and professional trade unions, labor, peasant and religious figures to form the Constitution for all Egyptians Front in order to halt the founding committee, formed by Parliament and reach consensus on the objective criteria for the drafting of the constitution to achieve the basic demands of the revolution in freedom and social justice and human dignity.” The statement continued to say that Egyptians are witnessing a “new chapter in a plot, with the complicity of the military junta with religious currents, topped by the Muslim Brotherhood, to take over all the authority in the country, where the group took the Parliament and the Shura Council and the Constituent Assembly, and is in the process to dominate the whole country,” The Front also argued that the Brotherhood and the military are attempting to form the next government as well as “control of the trade unions and other institutions of the state.” The Front added that the recent step of the Muslim Brotherhood represented in the nomination of businessman Khairat al-Shater for president is “the reproduction of the illegal marriage between wealth and power with the blessing of the United States and the Gulf States, which represents a coup entirely on the revolution and its goals.” The members of the Front agreed on the organization of several figures activities to step up their struggle against the Constituent Assembly, which lost its legitimacy, during the meeting and called for the Front's masses to rally in front of the State Council on April 23 for solidarity with the lawsuit filed to nullify the formation of the assembly. The statement was signed by more than 30 parties and political movements and revolutionary coalitions, the National Association for Change, Kefaya and the April 6 Movement, the Democratic Front and an alliance of women's organizations, the Union of Youth of the Revolution, and the Federation of independent Egyptian peasants, and the Egyptian Coptic Union and the People's Committee to Write the Constitution.
