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Mixed reactions to naming of Constituent Assembly
Published in Daily News Egypt on 02 - 09 - 2013

Islamists and revolutionaries alike say they are underrepresented in the new constituent assembly to review the constitution, the make-up of which was publicised on Sunday.
Al Nour Party spokesman Sherif Taha told state-owned MENA that the formation of the assembly is "very bad, and expresses the control of the leftists and nationalists over the assembly, with a clear exclusion of Islamists."
Taha added that any proposed amendments to the constitution will not be decided upon unanimously under such an assembly.
Only one Islamist, Bassam El Zarka of Al Nour party, was included in the assembly
Taha said there is a possibility that El Zarka will withdraw his from the assembly.
Salafi leader and vice president of Salafi Da'wa Yasser Borhamy said in a press release on Monday that the assembly did not meet standards set by interim president Adly Mansour, state-owned Al Ahram reported.
The assembly was exclusionary, Borhamy added, because it included 11 leftist and Nasserist members, while there was only one Islamist.
The Revolutionary Powers Agglomeration also criticised the formation of the assembly.
Al Ahram cited Mohamed Atteya from the political office of the agglomeration saying that the formation ignored revolutionary groups other than Tamarrod and Al Dostour Party. Atteya added that choosing two members from Tamarrod, Mahmoud Badr and Mohamed Abdel Aziz, was wrong and that one would have been enough, allowing for the representation of other revolutionary powers.
The presidency announced the names of the backup members for the constituent assembly on Sunday. These included:
1. Mohamed Shahat El Gendy, representative for Al-Azhar
2. Mohamed Abdel Samad Mehanna, representative for Al-Azhar
3. Mohga Ghaleb Abdel Rahman, representative for Al-Azhar
4. Monsef Naguib Soliman, representative for the Coptic Orthodox Church
5. Gamil Halim Habib, representative for the Coptic Orthodox Church
6. Makram Lamei, representative for the Coptic Orthodox Church
7. Amr Mohamed Ibrahim Darwish, youth representative Maha Abu Bakr, you representative
8. Wael Atteya, youth representative
9. Mo'atamer Amin, youh representative
10. Mohamed El Mekhzengy, representative for the Writers' Union
11. Sameh El Serity, actor, representative for the Arts Syndicates Union
12. Mostafa Hussein, cartoonist, representative for the Applied Arts Syndicate
13. Ahmed Abdel Mo'ty Hegazy, poet, representative for the Supreme Council for Culture
14. Mohamed Wahab Allah, representative for the Workers' Syndicates Union
15. Yousry Maarouf, representative for the Workers' Syndicates Union
16. Mohamed Sobh El Dabsh, representative for the Farmers' Syndicates Union
17. Mohamed Rashed Aboul Wafa, representative for the Farmers' Syndicates Union
18. Mohamed Ahmed Nagi, representative for the Lawyers' Syndicate
19. Khaled Omara, representative for the Doctors' Syndicate
20. Hussein Sabour, representative for the Engineers' Syndicate
21. Gamal Fahmy, representative for the Journalists' Syndicate
22. Moa'taz El Sayed, representative for the Touristic Chambers Committee
23. Mohamed Zaki El Sewidi, representative for the Industrial Chambers Committee
24. Mohamed Ateyya El Fayoumy, representative for the Business Chambers Committee
25. Hesham Ashraf Farag, representative for Egypt's Students Union
26. Mohamed Anwar Esmat El Sadat, representative for the Federation of Societies
27. Amna Nosseir, representative for the National Council of Women
28. Nehad Aboul Komsan, representative for the National Council of Motherhood and Childhood
29. Omayma Edris, representative for the Supreme Council for Universities
30. Nasser Amin, representative for the National Council for Human Rights
31. Salah Abdel Hakim Mahmoud, representative for the disabled
32. Maher Manna' Mayhoub, representative for the armed forces
33. Mohamed Saad Gawish, representative for Al Nour Party, Islamist
34. Nageh Ibrahim, Islamist thinker
35. Naguib Abadeer, representative for the Free Egyptians Party, liberal
36. Mohamed El Orabi, representative for Al-Mot'amar Party, liberal
37. Safaa Zaki Mourad, representative for the Popular Social Alliance Party, leftist
38. Salah El Deen El Desouky, representative for the Nasserist Popular Conference party, nationalist
39. Ahmed Rashwan, judge
40. Ibrahim Eissa, TV host and journalist
41. Mahmoud Kobeish, Dean of law, Cairo University
42. Osama El Azhary, academic representative for Al-Azhar
43. Laila Takla, Coptic politician
44. Salah Eissa, journalist
45. Waseem El Sisi, columnist and researcher
46. Medhat Saad El Din, judge
47. Ezz El Deen Shokri Feshir, novelist and political science professor
48. Wahid Hamed, scriptwriter


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