Also, the peace process will involve a constitutional assembly, for which elections are due in June.

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But the rebels are pressing for guarantees that the results of the talks be recognised by a constitutional assembly.

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Seventy-seven percent of the public voted to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in September and to appoint members of a constitutional assembly from among the elected members of the next parliament to prepare Egypt's new constitution.

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