Egypt's interim president to decide on voting system

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An assembly amending Egypt's constitution has left it to the army-backed interim president to decide on the voting system to be used in a parliamentary poll next year, state news agency MENA said on Wednesday. Egypt's political transition has stumbled since a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak in 2011. In July the army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after big protests against him. A referendum on the amended constitution is due in December, an important step in the interim government's roadmap that it says will lead to parliamentary and presidential elections.

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