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Former Arab League chief Amr Moussa elected head of Egypt's constitution committee
Veteran Egyptian politician Amr Moussa has been elected as the head of a 50-member committee tasked with amending Egypt's constitution as the panel convened its first session.
Moussa, a former foreign minister under toppled president Hosni Mubarak and ex-presidential aspirant, won 30 votes, while his opponent Sameh Ashour, head of the laywers' syndicate, got only 16, and two votes were invalid. Last month, the army-installed interim president, Adly Mansour, who replaced deposed president Mohamed Morsi following the latter's July 3 ouster, named the committee members tasked with debating amendments proposed by a mini-panel earlier. The 50-member committee is expected to discuss the proposed amendments for two months before putting a draft constitution to a popular referendum.