Perhaps the most important of these amendments is putting the armed forces high above the country’s Constitution, by making the selection of the Defense Minister a truly exclusive right of the Military Council of the Armed Forces, which contradicts the very concept of ​​a civil state.
The amendments also disproportionately favor the judiciary and exclude it from state oversight, making its budget an almost completely closed secret, thus placing it with army above the state and above the Constitution.
The changes also put an end to the illusions of independence of the judiciary, as they give the President of the Republic the power to appoint the country’s Public Prosecutor. In the suspended Constitution, the Public Prosecutor is nominated by the Supreme Judicial Council. (..)

God save Egypt – free, proud and steadfast against the coup…