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Egypt's military-backed authorities have all but excluded Islamists from a new 50-member panel charged with drafting final amendments to the country’s
post-Mubarak constitution.
Nour, the ultraconservative Salafi party that endorsed the army’s overthrow in July of Mohamed Morsi, the elected Islamist president, has
been given one seat on the panel.
But its leaders complain the body is packed with secular figures who are
“opponents of the Islamic project”. The only other representative of
political Islam in the constituent assembly is Kamal al-Helbawi, a
dissident from Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, who broke away from it in
the late 1990s.
The tiny representation of the Islamists, who won all five elections after
the 2011 revolt, shows the reversal in Egyptian politics since the army toppled Mr Morsi, cracked down on the Brotherhood and set in motion a new process aimed at reconfiguring the political scene.
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