Presidential decree forms Supreme Electoral Committee

Manar Mohsen
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Interim president Adly Mansour (Khaled Desouki / AFP /Getty Images)
Interim president Adly Mansour (Khaled Desouki / AFP /Getty Images)
Interim president Adly Mansour
(Khaled Desouki / AFP /Getty Images)

Interim president Adly Mansour issued a decree on Wednesday forming the Supreme Electoral Committee, to be headed by Judge Nabil Salib of the Cairo Appeals Court.

Its members include: judges Ezzat Ahmed Omran, Anwar Mohamed Gabry and Mohamed Hossam Al-Raheem of the Court of Cassation, Essam Aldin Abdelaziz and Yehia Mohamed Negm of the State Council, and judges Sabry Mohamed Ahmed and Ayman Mahmoud Abbas of appeals courts.

According to Article 30 of the constitutional declaration issued by president Mansour, the Supreme Electoral Committee has full supervision over the upcoming referendum on the constitutional amendments.

The referendum is scheduled to take place 30 days after the 50-member Constituent Assembly amending the 2012 constitution presents a final draft to the president.

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