Egypt Parliamentary Elections To Be Postponed By New Legal Setback

Patrick Kingsley in Cairo, The Guardian
Sun, 03/01/2015 - 5:52am

The country was due to elect new lawmakers this month having been without any sitting MPs since 2012Egypt’s president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, could retain control of the country’s lawmaking process for the foreseeable future, after the supreme court ruled on Sunday that a law governing the upcoming election of a new parliament was unconstitutional.The move is likely to force the postponement of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin later this month, though their fate will not be conclusively decided until another court ruling on 10 March, an election official told state television.

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