'Constitution violates freedoms’

Chancellor Tahani Al-Jabali, former vice president of the Constitutional Court of Egypt, has expressed her rejection of the new constitution and Egyptian President. She accused the President of “losing his legitimacy” as he perjured three times. In an interview with Arabstoday Jabali explained: "The Constitution devoted an article to excluding me, such a thing has never happened in any country in the world. But this is not the only reason I refuse it, the constitution violates state regulations through unfair distribution of wealth and blatant discrimination." "The Constitution contain texts inciting religious sectarianism, and does not respect equality and citizenship," Jabali added. Jabali declared that she refuses the rule of President Morsi and supports the demonstrations demanding his fall, stressing that he already lost his legitimacy after murdering many demonstrators in various governorates. Furthermore, she explained that Morsi is now losing the support of those who gave him their votes in the first place. Jabali attributed this crisis situation and the current chaos to presidential bias towards one faction at the expense of all others. "The people took the streets in anger because they feel that the judiciary is not theirs," Jabali said. She believes that the solution lies in early elections where either confidence in the President will be renewed or another will take his place. Tahani held President Morsi accountable for the spilled blood and the lost dignity of the Egyptian people, asserting that they will never forgive him and will pursue his prosecution. She demanded the punishment of whoever issued the fatwa of killing opposition leaders, stressing that such fatwa’s conform to the Brotherhood’s tactic of assassinating politicians, intellectuals, and anyone else who opposes them. She also accused them of trying to exclude women from the squares of demonstrations through harassment. As for the Azhar document, Jabali said it lacks a political real solution, and stressed that if the current situation continues, the army should intervene.