Muslim Brotherhood to boycott military panel on new constitution
CAIRO // Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group dominating parliamentary elections, says it will boycott a council appointed by the country's military rulers to oversee drafting of the new constitution.
In theory, the new parliament will be entrusted with forming a 100-member assembly to write the constitution.
But the generals say the parliament will not be representative, so they are appointing a council to protect the process of drafting a constitution from extremist religious ideas.
Islamist groups won about 68 per cent of seats in the first round of elections.
