Weekly News Egypt 18 - 25 June
Top News: Debate rages over Constitution or elections first options The official plan in Egypt, as presented by the High Council of the Armed Forces is still to have parliamentarian elections in September 2011. According to article 60 of the provisional constitution submitted by the HCAF to a referendum in March 2011 and approved by 77% of the voters, the elected parliament would create a constitutional assembly of 100 members. This assembly would present a new draft of the constitution to a new referendum within 6 months after its creation. There are currently 5 different trends which tend to amend or completely review this pathway. No less than 40 political parties, groups and coalitions have called for a million man protest 8 July making it clear that if Egypt's new constitution is not written first before parliamentary elections there will be a resumption of the sit-in at Tahrir Square. The million man protest is to be called "Correcting the Tr...