The Shūrá Council's legislative and Constitutional affairs committee headed by Muhammad Tūsūn on Monday rejected a proposal by a sub-committee to allocate a quota for the Copts through electoral lists in the upcoming parliament. Coptic Shūrá Council member Rāmī Lakkah on the committee requested that the draft parliamentary elections law stipulate a quota of 27 Coptic Christians, one for each governorate. The sub-committee had proposed an article saying that "a Coptic candidate should be declared winner in every governorate of the list with the least electoral representation in the list that follows taking into account famers and labors" (Sālih Shalabī, al-Misrīyun, Jan. 16, p. 2). Read original text in Arabic