Constituent Assembly of Egypt
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Cairo |
| First session: | June 9, 2012 |
| MPs: | 100 |
| Current legislative period | |
| Last choice: | March 26, 2012 |
| Distribution of seats: |
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The Constituent Assembly of Egypt ( Arabic الجمعية التأسيسية, DMG al-Ǧamʿiyya at-Taʾsīsiyya ) from 2012 is the committee for the creation of a new constitution for the Republic of Egypt .
The assembly is limited by supra-constitutional principles. Vice Prime Minister Ali al-Selmi published the guidelines (supra-constitutional principles) on November 1, 2011 . Among other things, they provide for the military to take precedence over parliament and for the army to be guaranteed extensive autonomy. Under political pressure, some guidelines were changed in the following days.
The final draft will be submitted by December 12, 2012. The referendum on the draft constitution is to take place on December 15, 2012. Parliamentary elections should be held two months after a constitution has been passed by referendum. These have now been postponed to 2015 after Morsi's fall.
procedure
The originally 100-member body was elected by the two chambers of parliament ( People's Assembly and Shura Council ). In the meantime, more than a dozen members have stopped work, mostly due to criticism of the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists in the body; many social groups such as the women's movement , Coptic Christians , Nubians and Bedouins feel excluded.
As a result, the draft constitution has been heavily criticized by non-governmental organizations such as Human Rights Watch , as the core of many rights is being destroyed by restrictions and vague formulations. Some human rights activists consider the new constitution to be worse than any previous constitution.
On November 29th and 30th, 2012, the Constituent Assembly passed a draft constitution, which will first be presented to President Mohammed Morsi and which will be put to a referendum within two weeks. Liberal, left, secular and Christian members of the assembly did not attend the final meetings of the assembly or vote in protest. You criticize u. a. that the draft declares the "principles of Sharia " to be the "main source of legislation". A passage was criticized that calls for the al-Azhar University to be invoked with questions relating to Islamic law. According to critics, further paragraphs leave a lot of scope for questionable interpretations. The week before, President Morsi had declared his decisions to be incontestable by the judiciary until a new constitution was passed. Elijah Zarwan , member of the European Council on Foreign Relations , saw this declaration as a means of exerting pressure on the population to accept the constitution.
composition
The party affiliations after the election are currently as follows:
| Affiliation | Members | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Election result | As of June 9, 2012 | ||
| Freedom and Justice Party | 16 | ||
| Party of light | 8th | ||
| New Wafd party | 5 | ||
| Egyptian Social Democratic Party | 2 | ||
| Conference party | 2 | ||
| Reconstruction and development party | 1 | ||
| al-Wasat party | 1 | ||
| Reform and Development Party | 1 | ||
| People's Socialist Alliance | 1 | ||
| Party of dignity | 1 | ||
| Independent | 61 | ||
| Total members | 88 | ||
| vacant | 12 | ||
| Total seats | 100 | ||
Individual evidence
- ↑ constitutionnet.org: constitutional principles ( Memento of January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 84 kB)
- ↑ acus.org: How will the supra-constitutional principles be amended ?, November 17, 2011 ( Memento of November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Mursi: Referendum on the draft constitution on December 15 at welt.de, December 1, 2012 (accessed on December 1, 2012).
- ^ Egypt struggles for a new constitution. Retrieved September 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Human Rights Watch criticizes Egyptian draft constitution. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013 ; Retrieved October 15, 2012 .
- ^ Egyptian Constituent Assembly close to finalizing constitution
- ↑ Cornelia Wegerhoff: Constitution in quick action on: Tagesschau.de. November 29, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
- ↑ Björn Blaschke: The new "freedoms" - from the perspective of the Islamists On: Tagesschau.de. November 29, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
- ^ Egypt assembly adopts draft constitution. al Jazeera , November 30, 2012, accessed November 30, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Islamists whip through draft constitution. Spiegel Online , November 30, 2012, accessed November 30, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Abdel-Rahman Hussein: Egyptian parliament passes draft constitution despite protests. The Guardian , November 30, 2012, accessed November 30, 2012 .