Sisi issues decree allowing dissolution of next Egyptian parliament
Sisi issues decree allowing dissolution of next Egyptian parliament
Egyptian President Sisi has issued a decree allowing him to to dissolve next parliament, and repealed a law requiring court to adjudicate on challenges during elections.
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Sisi issues law which permits dissolution of next parliament [RIA Novosti via Getty Images]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued on Tuesday a new law, which permits the issuance of rulings to dissolve the next parliament, after holding elections, and cancelled the current law, which requires the Supreme Constitutional Court to adjudicate on challenges to electoral laws before elections are conducted, to guarantee parliament's stability.
A judicial source from the Supreme Constitutional Court said: "The court's president and former [transitional Egyptian] President Adli Mansour, rejected the other draft law, which the government had prepared to fortify parliament and not allow its dissolution in case rulings by the Constitutional Court invalidated the electoral law or the districts divisions law."
"Mansour told Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab that the Constitutional Court refuses to have a guardianship imposed on it, preventing it from applying its rulings, and that its law permits it to determine the dates its rulings would come into force," the source added.
Various political parties close to the regime announced their rejection for the law that was issued today because it allows for the dissolution of parliament. However, the Constitutional Court insisted on it under the pretext that setting short deadlines for looking into challenges to electoral laws would overwork the court's judges and litigants.
A judicial source from the Supreme Constitutional Court said: "The court's president and former [transitional Egyptian] President Adli Mansour, rejected the other draft law, which the government had prepared to fortify parliament and not allow its dissolution in case rulings by the Constitutional Court invalidated the electoral law or the districts divisions law."
"Mansour told Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab that the Constitutional Court refuses to have a guardianship imposed on it, preventing it from applying its rulings, and that its law permits it to determine the dates its rulings would come into force," the source added.
Various political parties close to the regime announced their rejection for the law that was issued today because it allows for the dissolution of parliament. However, the Constitutional Court insisted on it under the pretext that setting short deadlines for looking into challenges to electoral laws would overwork the court's judges and litigants.
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