Egyptian MPs to select constituent assembly

The head of Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on Sunday called for Egyptian MPs to meet with the People’s Assembly speaker to select members of the constituent assembly that will write the new constitution. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi set the meeting for March 3 at 11am, and the decision will be published in the official Egyptian Gazette paper, which publishes new laws. The Constitutional Declaration ratified last March stipulated that Parliament will select a 100-member committee to draft the new constitution. Tantawi said that only the elected members of the parliament, not the members appointed by the military council, will be meeting with the People’s Assembly Speaker Saad Katatny to select members.