First Look at Egypt's Constitutional Declaration
Egypt's constitutional declaration sets the ground rules for the post-Morsi transition.
While Mohammed Morsi might be out of power, one significant feature from his year in office isn’t, namely the potential for receiving major government announcements while Egyptians are actually supposed to be sleeping. Almost exactly at midnight, Egypt’s anticipated new constitutional declaration has finally come out into the light, setting the ground rules for the political transition following Morsi’s ouster.
The short transitional charter of 33 articles, largely barebones and half the size of its 2011 predecessor, has a lot of remarkable features and implications, and says a lot about where Egypt is right now politically.
