Monday, March 21, 2011

Egypt, a victory of "yes" to referendum via the Yemeni government in Syria clashes

CAIRO - The "yes" to the constitutional amendments won the referendum that took place yesterday in Egypt. Yes I have reached 77.2% while they have not cashed the 22.18% of the vote. This was announced by the chairman of the committee supervising the referendum. The agency Mena, meanwhile, indicated that in the four regions we have obtained between 75% and 90% of the vote.

The turnout was 41%. The referendum on amendments to the Constitution was the first vote after Mubarak. In support of Yes has been backed by the Muslim Brotherhood and the party of former Rais, the National Democratic Party. For no young people of the revolution and the parties that support them and the Copts, as well as the most popular presidential candidate Mohamed El Baradei, the subject of an assault yesterday at a polling station, and Amr Moussa, the current secretary general of the Arab League.

The 45 million eligible voters were asked to choose whether or not to approve the package of constitutional reforms proposed by a committee of wise men appointed by the Supreme Military Council. The victory will allow the organization of parliamentary and presidential elections later this year, while no force the military junta to extend the expiry of six months provided for in September, for the transfer of power in the hands of a civilian government.

Under the reform, limiting the number of presidential terms, the loosening of restrictions apply, strengthening the control of the judiciary on the elections and the abolition of presidential power to order military trials of civilians. The reform also makes it easier to stand for presidential elections.

The committee of experts, for now, he did not put his hand to the rules regarding the powers of the president, who for 31 years has guaranteed, in practice, the omnipotence to Mubarak. The indication of the Committee is that these rules are rewritten after the presidential and parliamentary elections by the new parliament.

Meanwhile, in Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has dismissed the entire National Executive, in the wake of popular pressure for the Friday violence that has killed at least 52 demonstrators. This was reported by the official Yemeni news agency, without providing further details for the moment.

And Syria is at least one dead and hundreds wounded stock of new clashes in Dara, in the south of the country, thousands of demonstrators and security forces. The officers opened fire and shot tear gas into the crowd, for the third consecutive day that had gathered in the city, where last Friday had been killed four protesters.

The anger erupted after the arrival today of a government delegation was responsible for bringing their condolences to the families of victims of the regime. Syrian President Bashar al Assad, in fact, today unveiled its formal condolences to the families of the two martyrs killed in the south of Syria on Friday, where people think of Dara, the scene of anti-regime demonstrations, there would have been up to today you are dead, killed by security forces in Damascus.

During the incident, hundreds of protesters set fire to the Palace of Justice, the headquarters of the Baath Party and other buildings in the town. Some vehicles were set on fire. As a gesture of detente, Damascus has decided the release of 15 young, all under the age of 16, whose arrest led to an explosion of protests.

The boys were arrested for writing graffiti praising the riots, Tunisian and Egyptian on the walls of the city.

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