The liberal Wafd Party has withdrawn its members from the constituent assembly tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution after an emergency meeting on Tuesday evening.
Four Wafd Party members had sat on the assembly: El-Sayed El-Badawy, Mohamed Abdel Alim Dawood MP, Mahmoud El-Sakka MP and Margaret Azer MP.
The Wafd Party is the latest to leave the constituent assembly following the Free Egyptians, the Popular Socialist Alliance, and the Egyptian Social Democratic Party which pulled out over the last few days. There are no members of leftist or liberal parties remaining on the assembly.
Membership of the 100-member constituent assembly, announced on Sunday, has caused outrage among Egypt’s political forces because, they claim, it is unrepresentative of Egyptian society. Sixty-five members are Islamists, 50 of whom are members of the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist political parties.
A coalition of constituent assembly members who resigned from the body, together with key political and civil society figures, have announced they will be forming an alternative assembly that is more representative of society.
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