Egypt supports the amendments to the Constitution

20 March 2011, last updated at 18: 05 ET, Pro-democracy activists, who ousted President Mubarak said the changes did not go far enoughEgyptians have strongly backed the changes to the Constitution, which allows you to move quickly to elections, the country.

Official results show that supporters of the referendum on Saturday, 77% were in favour of the changes.

The former President Hosni Mubarak elections stage-managed with the parties, on the one hand, and the results and the overall turnout was very low.

By vote of the people's representative body can now take place at an early stage than in September.

Mohammed Ahmed, a top legal Committee Attiyah, which monitor the voting, the Manager said, 18.5 million people voted for the changes. Overall turnout was 41.2% of all households were made up of 45 million of the eligible electorate.

The changes are:

• Reduce the six-year presidential terms to four years, and bounded by the two terms, the Chairman of the

• The Obligation to choose a substitute within 30 days of the date of the elections, the Executive Director

• Install the new criteria for the evaluation of "Innocence", and a rule that they must be more than 40 years old and married to a non-Egyptian

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Egyptian journalists caught in a US security guard cries to the love we have heard about the referendum, otherwise a very pronounced in the news conference, the stipulation of the result of the qualification. One man reported that solo honest turnout statistics had reason to celebrate. "Just imagine, we were told in the past, if it was only 41% of the long queues of lies," He commented.

-Tahrir Square, the protests, which overthrew the President, the focus was on the higher division. Angry, the group opposes the amendments of the Constitution of the revolutionary slogan of reviving the "illegitimate". "We need a new Constitution," they shouted. Had the Muslim Brotherhood, which is called the "Yes" vote in the end, and is expected to benefit from criticism.

Other demonstrations called to stop watching the 1. "We have just appear nervous and vengeful, ourselves," said Ahmed Mustafa. "All must accept this and begin to build our country."

The two main political groups in the country, Mr. Mubarak's National Democratic Party and the Muslim Brotherhood backed proposals.

Essam al-Aryan Brotherhood spokesman, called the result "the victory of the Egyptian people," which allows the country to "turn the page and enter a new phase."

He rejected the Brotherhood had been used in its religious influence to persuade their people support the proposed changes, or that his vote was the victor.

The Pro-Democracy activists, said the changes did not go far enough and wanted to be completely rewritten the Constitution before the elections, could be held.

Activists have argued that, without violating the established parties stand for holding the highest profit quickly.

But the activists, the revolution, the Youth Coalition, the umbrella group, posted a message on Facebook to make the citizens to accept the outcome of the referendum.

"We call the Facebook page of the will of the people's respect and the members of the selection after the break-up of the democratic Practice, which we consider to be the historic departure from Egypt's political life," the message said.

The US Ambassador to Egypt, Margaret Scobey, said the referendum was "a major step in the use of 25 January on the efforts of the revolution".

Many Egyptians had never voted on Saturday was the first time.

Turnout was very low, under Mr. Mubarak, the lack of real political competition and votes were positioning means assumption.