CAIRO: The Salafist Nour Party will not ally with the Muslim Brotherhood in the near future and calls for voting for the constitution, said head of Nour Party’s media affairs Nader Bakkar at a press conference Thursday.
“Any constitution would not completely satisfy us because it is a human product in the end,” Bakkar said, adding that the interpretation of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Sharia is a good alternative to the abolished article 219.
“The Constitutional Court differentiated between Islam’s ‘fixed provisions,’ which do not accept different reasoning, and the provisions that may be interpreted differently,” head of the Nour Party’s legal affairs Talaat Marzouk said at the same conference, adding that “the Constitutional Court’s interpretation of the Sharia law crystallizes the party’s vision of article 2.”
Marzouk added that Nour Party did not vote for the article on military trials for civilians.
Bakkar expressed “flexibility” about amendments to the roadmap announced by the military on July 3 as long as they are produced from dialogue, but said new amendments would prolong the transitional phase.=
“We prefer holding parliamentary elections before presidential elections, but if political forces negotiated and agreed on changing that aspect of the roadmap, we would not refuse,” Marzouk said.
“We also prefer the party list to the individual voting system in elections because the latter allows clans and money to control elections.”
Although Nour Party supported the Constitutional Declaration issued by former President Mohamed Morsi, the party refused to take to streets to express approval as the Muslim Brotherhood had requested from them, former adviser to the President and leading Nour Party figure told Youm7.
