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Constitution committee meets, discusses military trials

Constitution committee meets, discusses military trials
As the Committee of 50 that will finalize Egypt's new constitution met Tuesday, discussions surrounding important points in the new constitution arose. 
These included the system of governance, the role of military, and if the constitution will be drafted from scratch or amend the new constitution. 
Mohamed al-Salmawy, the spokesperson for Council of 50 said that the committee still had not decided whether it will modify the suspended constitution or write a completely new constitution.
It was also the first time that the council of governance was meeting. 
Amr al-Shobaky, a former MP and political scientist, said that issues with the system of government in the constitution of 2012 were related to its implementation, not with the text itself, the state-owned news agency MENA reported.
"The state's former regime was not presidential, but authoritarian." He said that this shouldn't mean a move to a parliamentary system as a result of how power was experienced before.
Shobaky also asked Magdy Eddin Barakat, the military's representative in the council, to specify the mechanism that will be applicable at military trials and for proposals related to the laws the military wished to remove. 
Barakat said that while civilians should be tried by civilian courts, just wearing civilian clothes does not mean that defendants will be exempted in all cases from military trial when the military is party to the case. 
Shobky said there was desires to amend military-related articles, but did not specify which ones. 
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