CAIRO, March 27 (UPI) -- The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt said Islamist parties made up 49 percent of a panel tasked with drafting a new constitution.
Egyptian media reports this week claimed the FJP, along with Islamist party al-Nour, held the majority of the seats on the constituent assembly drafting the country's first post-revolution constitution.
The FJP, however, claimed that Islamist parties make up 49 percent of the body, the Egyptian Independent reports.
Critics, the news agency reports, say the selection process wasn't vetted properly, noting only six women and six Christians were nominated for the 100-member panel. Secular forces, it adds, have withdrawn from the assembly.
Islamists claimed an overwhelming victory over their counterparts in parliamentary elections. The Muslim Brotherhood had campaigned under the slogan Islam is the Solution.
The FJP, in a statement published by the Muslim Brotherhood's Ikhwanweb site, complained the military-led government was working to bring the "corrupt" former regime of Hosni Mubarak to power.
"We believe it insidiously creates problems, which it aims to bequeath unto the forthcoming government," the statement read. "Clearly, this is both a shameful disgrace and an imminent danger to the revolution and its goals."
