Egypt panel begins vote on draft constitution

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By TONY G. GABRIEL and MARIAM RIZK

CAIRO (AP) - A panel in Egypt has begun voting on a series of constitutional amendments, a milestone in the country's transition to democracy after a July coup.

The two days of voting, to be aired on state television, began Saturday. The 50-member committee will vote electronically on each of the 247 articles. Most of them are changes to existing portions of the constitution while some brand new additions.

The panel will hand in the draft to interim President Adly Mansour, who has a month to call for a public vote on it. That's first step in a military-backed transition plan after the coup that ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt is scheduled to have parliamentarian and presidential elections next year.

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20131130/DAACVPOO0.html

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An Egyptian riot policeman fires tear gas in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, to disperse hundreds of Islamist demonstrators defying a new protest law that has drawn widespread criticism from the international community and democracy advocates.(AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. People complained that the MB "packed" the earlier constitution-writing (by winning elections).

This 50-person panel appointed by the coupsters is so much more representative.

[MisterP]

2. that's how Indonesia took over New Guinea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_free_choice

perhaps Sean Penn can scream that any objection to the military is imperialist