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1st LD: Egypt's top court rules electoral law article unconstitutional

Xinhua, March 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the electoral districts of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections as unconstitutional, a ruling that may delay the voting set for March 21, state-run Nile TV reported.

Egypt's parliamentary polls are supposed to be held in stages from March 21 to May 7, the first since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in July 2013.

Egypt has been without a parliament for three years, after the House of Representatives elected in late 2011 was dissolved in June 2012 in line with a court ruling.

The parliamentary elections will be the final stage of a road map outlined by the army-backed authority after the ouster of Morsi. Endit