Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud said Tuesday he would soon launch an awareness campaign titled “Know Your Constitution” to familiarize people with its articles.
He said the campaign would encourage people to send in comments for the Constituent Assembly to take into account. “The campaign is being launched at 95 information centers nationwide,” the minister said.
Egypt's new constitution will be drafted by the end of September, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said on Saturday. Qandil said that once the draft is complete, it would be put forward for a popular referendum.
The Constituent Assembly, appointed by the now-dissolved People's Assembly, has been in the process of drafting the first post-Mubarak constitution since June.
The formation of the Constituent Assembly has been a source of extreme contention between the country's political forces. Secularists opposed Islamist parties' control over the first assembly. Appointed by the Islamist-dominated Parliament, the assembly held a large proportion of conservative and Islamist figures.
The Supreme Administrative Court dissolved the first assembly in April because it said it lacked balance and failed to represent the full spectrum of Egyptian society. The court is still considering an appeal filed against the second assembly that was formed.
Edited translation from MENA
