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The state building team at the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) voted on the choice of the closed proportional representation as an electoral system for Yemen.
The proportional system obtained 97.7 percent of the members of the team, while the mixed system obtained only one vote.
Meanwhile, the state building team approved a constitutional article including the woman quota and another suggestion which stipulate,

Mohamed Morsi, ex-president of Egypt and a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau, is being investigated on suspicion of treason and conspiracy to murder.

Several lawyers and political activists have filed lawsuits against Morsi, accusing him of coordinating with foreign elements to spread chaos and kill Egyptians during the early days of the 25 January Revolution and during his year in office.

Deputy and General Co-ordinator of the People's Trend Mohamed Brahmi was shot dead on Thursday in his car, in front of his home at El Ghazala district, in the city of Ariana.

The news has been officially confirmed by the Interior Ministry via its spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui.

The victim was transferred to the Ariana Mahmoud el Materi hospital, where a medical source confirmed his death to TAP news agency.

Late Mohamed Brahmi was already dead when he was admitted to hospital, according to the same source.

Rama said that the reconstruction of the cabinet "has been based on a detailed analysis of the current government and all its branches, which in our opinion contains parasitcal structures and require cuts".

The new cabinet will have 19 ministries, four more than the outgoing government of Prime Minister Sali Berisha, he noted.

Rama’s Socialist-led alliance won a landslide victory in the June 23 parliamentary election, winning 84 of the 140 seats in parliament.

Kuwaitis head to the polls tomorrow for a second parliamentary election in eight months that opposition groups are boycotting and that is not expected to heal years of bitter divisions. The election-the sixth in as many years for the oil-rich Gulf state-follows a dull campaign that has failed to jolt apathetic voters into action.

BEIRUT: The parliamentary Future bloc is ready to attend National Dialogue only after the formation of a new Cabinet, former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Tuesday. “Priority should be given to the Cabinet formation.

National Dialogue comes after the Cabinet formation,” Siniora, head of the Future bloc, told The Daily Star.

Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş told reporters July 24 that the ultimate decision on who would run for his position next term is up to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), while adding that he “is here.” 

“I am here, if God allows it… Of course this is politics. Our citizens and my party will be making that decision. I thank my party for giving me two consecutive terms,” Topbaş said during an iftar event hosting representatives of Istanbul’s local authorities.