Speaker of the People's Assembly Saad El-Katatni announces that 50 per cent of the constituent assembly's membership will be selected from within parliament during a Saturday joint upper and lower house session.

Saturday's poll which set forward several options for membership criteria saw 472 vote for the 50/50 option, in which 50 members of the 100-member constituent assembly will be chosen from Parliament and 50 from outside. The constituent assembly will be charged with drafting Egypt's new post-Mubarak constitution.