02.06 Egypts Top Court Rules Upper House Invalid
CAIRO, June 2 (RIA Novosti) Egypts highest court on Sunday ruled as invalid the countrys upper house of parliament and a panel that drafted the country's constitution.
The Supreme Constitutional Court said that the laws governing the election of the Islamist-dominated Shura Council (the Senate), and also the rules of selecting members of a committee that drafted the constitution were illegal.
The Shura Council will only be dissolved after new parliamentary elections are held, the court said.
Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court ruled last year that the electoral law under which both houses of parliament were elected was invalid, which prompted parliaments dissolution.
The Shura Council was then given legislative powers by a Constitutional Declaration adopted by President Mohammed Morsi in December last year.
