CAIRO: Representative of the Salafist Nour Party in the 50-member committee tasked with amending Egypt’s constitution Salah Abdel-Maaboud reiterated his party’s rejection to a quota percentage in the new constitution.
The party rejected any discrimination among the segments of society, he told MENA, noting that one term for labor and peasants in the parliament was enough.
The labor and peasants gained a quota percentage of 50 percent in previous Egyptian constitutions.
Meantime, he urged the panel members to show flexibility In order to reach consensus on the controversial articles.
Nour Party insists on deleting “civil state” from the preamble of the constitution, he pointed out.
