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Vision of el-Wafd, el-Tagmuu and the Nasserist parties on constitutional amendments
The parties of el-Wafd, el-Tagmuu and the Nasserist issued a statement on November 7, 2006 regarding their vision on amending the Constitution and the electoral system as follows:
1- Articles 40 to 63
The three parties believe that those articles should never be infringed given that they tackle public freedoms, rights and duties.
2- Article 74
The three parties believe that this article should be annulled given that it gives the President of the Republic the right to adopt exceptional measures to face the risks that threaten the national unity or the safety of the homeland.
3- Article 76
The three parties call for amending this article so that the conditions for running for presidency ensure only the seriousness of nomination and not to limit it.
4- Article 77
The three parties believe that it is necessary to re-adopt the text of the article before amending it in 1980 to limit re-electing the President of the Republic to only one term.
5- Article 88
It is necessary to keep this article and reject any attempt to annul the judicial supervision over the elections.
6- Article 89
It should be amended so that the members of the People's Assembly who work in the government and the public sector devote themselves only to membership under no exceptions in order to confirm the principle of powers' separation.
7- Article 93
The Judiciary (as represented in the Court of Cassation or the Higher Administrative Court) is to be only competent to decide upon the validity of the members of the People's Assembly. The Speaker of the People's Assembly has to take any challenges in this regard to the court which will issue the final ruling within a specific time since taking the challenge to it.
8-Article 115
It is to be amended to give the People's Assembly the right to modify the State's general budget draft. Should this amendment result in increasing the general expenditure, the People's Assembly has to find means to fund it.
9- Article 127
It is to be amended so that putting into effect the decision of the People's Assembly when withdrawing the confidence from the government entails the endorsement neither of the President of the Republic nor the popular referendum.
10- Articles 137/138
The Articles of 137 and 138 are to be merged in only one text so that the President of the Republic assumes the Executive together with the Cabinet.
11- Article 147
It is to be amended to make the President of the Republic, after the endorsement of the Cabinet, take the opinion of the bodies of the People's Assembly and the Shura Council together, in case of the absence of the two assemblies, before taking measures which cannot be postponed.
12- 148
It is to be amended to make the President of the Republic, after the endorsement of the Cabinet, to submit the matter to the Shura Council in case the People's Assembly is dissolved after announcing the state of emergency for six months and it may be extended after the endorsement of the People's Assembly.
13- Article 173
Annulling the Supreme Council of Judicial Authorities to confirm the principle of the independence of the Judiciary.
14- Article 179
Annulling the Socialist Public Prosecutor to realize the unity of the Judiciary and re-adopt the principle of the normal judge.
15- Article 194
It is to be amended to give the Shura Council specific legislative competencies.
16- The three parties call for adding an article to the Constitution to allow for the positive discrimination of the woman in order to participate effectively in the political work.
17- The three parties call for introducing new text to allow for adopting the unconditioned slate system for the electoral process.
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