Egyptian Salafist leaders have criticised calls for drafting a new constitution from scratch, calling on a 50-member constitutional panel to abide by an earlier decree stipulating that the charter be merely amended. Drafting an entirely new constitution “is a flagrant violation of the roadmap that cannot be accepted,” Yasser Borhami, deputy leader of Egypt’s Salafist Call movement, said in a statement on 25 September. Following the 3 July ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi by Egypt’s military establishment, the latter imposed a political roadmap for Egypt’s transitional phase. Under the plan, the constitution – approved late last year via popular referendum – was suspended, while Adly Mansour, head of Egypt’s constitutional court, was installed as interim president. “Mansour assumed his post under the army roadmap, according to which the constitution was only suspended – not annulled,” Borhami said.
SALAFIST LEADERS BLAST CALLS FOR NEW EGYPT CONSTITUTION
Egyptian Salafist leaders have criticised calls for drafting a new constitution from scratch, calling on a 50-member constitutional panel to abide by an earlier decree stipulating that the charter be merely amended. Drafting an entirely new constitution “is a flagrant violation of the roadmap that cannot be accepted,”
