Egypt’s highest court declares parliament invalid
[Updated at 10:47 a.m. ET] Egypt’s highest court on Thursday declared the country’s parliament invalid and cleared the way for a member of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime to run in a presidential election runoff this weekend.
The Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that parliament must be dissolved, state TV reported. An Egyptian constitutional law expert told CNN that following the court’s decision, a political decision would be made about whether to dissolve parliament.
Following the ruling, Egypt’s interim military rulers claimed to have full legislative control of government. Parliament had been in session for just over four months.
The court had ruled that about one-third of Egypt’s members of parliament were invalid because they ran as independents and later joined party blocs.
