Egypt's interim president to decide on voting system


  • World
  • Thursday, 28 Nov 2013

Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour attends a meeting with General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (not pictured) at El-Thadiya presidential palace in Cairo, November 14, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

CAIRO (Reuters) - An assembly amending Egypt's constitution has left it to the army-backed interim president to decide on the voting system to be used in a parliamentary poll next year, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.

Egypt's political transition has stumbled since a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011. In July the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after big protests against him.

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