Egypt’s Highest Court Says Parliament Must Dissolve

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CAIRO, June 14 (UPI) -- Protests erupted Thursday after Egypt's High Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a law used to elect about a third of the country's Parliament.

Gates surrounding the court in Cairo were locked and citizens were locked inside, Ahram Online reported. Iron barricades used to limit the number of cars and people near blocked area were closed completely.

The ruling on the country's Political Disenfranchisement Law voided the seats reserved for individual candidacies because those races relied on that law. It left in place a runoff Saturday and Sunday between Mohamed Morsi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, and Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahram Online said.

The decision, which dissolves the first freely elected Parliament in Egypt in decades, further fueled tensions between court, which positions itself as a check on Islamists' power, and the once outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.


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