A Geneva-based international law firm representing Coptic expatriates sent an official memo on Monday to Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces demanding that the next elected president dissolve the current Parliament once he assumes power.
The Egyptian presidential election, the first since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, will begin on Wednesday and Thursday.
Copies of the memo, also written in English, German, and French, were sent to the United Nations and the European Union.
The memo said the current Parliament is seeking to limit judicial oversight on legislation issued with the approval of 75 percent of MPs.
"Parliament should be dissolved after a new president is elected, and the ruling military council should vow to hand over power," the law firm's director, Awad Shafiq, said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
