CAIRO – The Egyptian military has formed a commission to amend Egypt’s constitution, a member of the panel said on Tuesday, after the body met the head of the ruling junta for the first time. “The armed forces want to hand over power as soon as possible. They want amendments to the constitution,” said Sobhi Saleh, a lawyer and former lawmaker from the Islamist opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood.
Saleh, a member of the eight member panel of judges and constitutional law experts, said it will revise the constitution, which the armed forces suspended on Sunday when they also dissolved parliament. “We met with the field marshal and the chief of staff,” he said. “We are revising the constitution to remove all restrictions and obstacles and to meet the aspirations of the revolution’s and the people’s demands,” he said.
The committee is headed by Tareq al-Bishari, a respected former head of Egypt’s administrative court.
