The Supreme Judicial Council of Egypt has agreed to supervise a referendum on the new constitution of the country.

Mohamed Gadallah, the legal adviser to President Mohamed Morsi, said on Monday, “The Supreme Judicial Council has met and agreed to delegate judges to oversee the constitutional referendum.”

Some 10,000 judges are required to monitor the constitutional referendum across the country, he added.

However, Egypt’s Judges Club, which represents judges nationwide, said in a statement on Sunday, “It has been agreed by all the judges of Egypt and the Judges Clubs outside the capital not to supervise a referendum on the draft constitution and to boycott it.”

On Sunday, top judges in Egypt also decided to go on an open-ended strike after thousands of pro-Morsi demonstrators, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, gathered outside the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt in opposition to any attempt to dissolve the Constituent Assembly.

The protesters supported Morsi’s constitutional declaration and called for the dissolution of the Supreme Court.

On November 22, Morsi signed a controversial decree allowing him to “issue any decision or law that is final and not subject to appeal.” Since then, thousands of Morsi opponents have converged on Liberation Square to protest against the decree and the speedy adoption of the draft constitution.

On Saturday, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Constituent Assembly presented the final draft of the constitution to Morsi after it finished the controversial draft on November 30. The president announced that a referendum on the new constitution will be held on December 15.

The opponents of the constitutional decree say they will hold another anti-Morsi demonstration on Tuesday.