CAIRO, Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)
CAIRO, Oct 23, 2012 (AFP)
The Supreme Administrative Court, which was due to rule on the fate of a panel drafting Egypt’s new constitution, on Tuesday referred the case to another court.
In another stumbling block in the country’s transition to democracy, the court referred the case of the 100-member Constituent Assembly to the Supreme Constitutional Court, an AFP reporter said.
The Assembly is being challenged for the mechanism with which its members were chosen.
The panel, formed in June, was meant to have finished the draft charter by December after which it was to be put to a referendum. Legislative elections were to follow two months later.
It is the second Constituent Assembly to be formed after the uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak last year, after an Islamist-dominated panel was dissolved in April for failing to represent all segments of society.
