Salma Shukrallah

SCAF Assumes Parliament Powers, Right to Elect Constituent Assembly: Legal Experts

Maher Samy of the High Constitutional Court (HCC) announced Thursday that both the lower and upper houses of Egypt's parliament are null and void, following the court ruling that the election of one third of the individual parliamentary candidacy seats and the Political Disenfranchisement Law were both unconstitutional. Thursday's verdict means that presidential contender, and Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, who would have been banned from running should the ...