Egypt's new constitution passes with 63.8% By the 25/12/2012 - 19:20
Egypt's new constitution, drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi, has been approved by 63.8 per cent of voters in a two-round referendum, the supreme election committee announced on Tuesday. Egypt's constitution was passed with 63.8 percent voter support in the two-stage referendum that ended last weekend, the national electoral commission said on Tuesday. Turnout was 32.9 percent of Egypt's total 52 million voters, the president of the commission, Samir Abul Maati, told a news conference in Cairo. The figures confirmed those given by President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which had backed the new charter. Abul Maati rejected opposition claims that fake judges supervised some of the polling -- one of several allegations of polling fraud the opposition National Salvation Front made after each leg of the referendum held December 15 and 22. The charter, and Morsi's determination to hold the referendum without building consensus, provoked weeks of protests, some of which turned violent. The Front has said it will not cease its struggle, raising the prospect of prolonged instability in the Arab world's most populous nation. Source URL: http://www.france24.com/en/20121225-egypts-constitution-morsi-elbaradei-muslim-brotherhood ------------------------------------ Post message: prole...@egroups.com Subscribe : proletar-subscr...@egroups.com Unsubscribe : proletar-unsubscr...@egroups.com List owner : proletar-ow...@egroups.com Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: proletar-dig...@yahoogroups.com proletar-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: proletar-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
