On Sunday the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) will meet with several Islamic parties to discuss the law regulating the parliamentary elections, scheduled for November, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Saturday.
The Freedom and Justice Party, the Salafi Nour Party, and the Reform and Renaissance Party will attend, officials from those parties said.
Information Minister Osama Heikal had announced Friday evening that the SCAF had invited various political forces to discuss the law.
The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said in a statement on Saturday that its president, Mohamed Morsy, will attend.
"There are red lines that are not subject to debate. They are the postponement of the elections and the supra-constitutional principles," said Mohamed Saad al-Katatny, the party's secretary general, at a seminar in Minya on Friday.
"What concerns us during this period are … the steps to transfer power through the upcoming legislative elections and getting rid of the remnants of the old system," Katatny added.
"We will demand the re-division of electoral districts, and the cancelation of the quota for workers and agricultural workers," said Emad Abdel Ghafoor, president of the Nour Party.
Abdel Ghafoor told Al-Masry Al-Youm his party will also demand lifting Emergency Law, abolishing military tribunals for civilians, and allowing civil society organizations to monitor the parliamentary elections.
"We will demand canceling the single-winner system so as to prevent the remnants of the National Democratic Party and partisans from getting access to the parliament," said Essam Abdel Baset, spokesperson for the Reform and Renaissance Party.
Tariq al-Zumor, media spokesperson of the Jama'a al-Islamiya, said the group had not been invited.
Adel Afifi, president of the Asala Party, said he was surprised the party had not received an invitation as it has been officially approved.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
