Constituent Assembly head Hossam al-Gheriany threatened to resign on Tuesday evening after objections from members about how he runs the assembly’s sessions.
“It is either you accept my management just like court rooms, or you elect someone else,” Gheriany said to the objecting members.
Gheriany ended the session by holding a vote on his chairmanship, and all members but one voted that he remain in the position.
Gheriany lashed out at the stopping of the broadcasting of the assembly sessions, confirming the right of the people to know and give estimates.
Major General Mamdouh Shahin, the military's representative in the assembly, suggested that any member who resigns should be replaced by the bloc that he represents, but 36 other assembly members preferred that the assembly vote on new members. Ultimately, the assembly agreed that alternate members would be chosen by a vote.
Ghad al-Thawra Party head Ayman Nour and Wasat Party head Abul Ela Mady were elected deputy heads of the assembly.
Freedom and Justice Party member Amr Darrag and Nour Party member Ashraf Thabet were chosen as the deputy secretary generals.
Assembly members decided to form a coalition to defend the assembly in front of the Administrative Court in a case calling for its dissolution. They argued that the court has no jurisdiction to look into the case because it annulled the first assembly.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
