The Alexandria Millī Council sent a statement on Friday (March 30) to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in which it condemned the mechanisms used to form a constitution-drafting assembly.

The Council stressed equality among all Egyptians in rights and duties regardless of religious affiliations in accordance with the constitutional declaration and all previous constitutions, noting the majority of seats on the 100-member panel went to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Salafī al-Nūr Party, whether from inside or outside parliament. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, March 31, p. 5] Read text in Arabic