CAIRO: Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court yesterday ruled that members of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s dissolved party can stand in future parliamentary elections.
The court found that any Egyptian citizen should not be deprived of political rights, “including the right to run in legislative bodies,” as long as that person meets the candidacy requirements, judicial sources said. The ruling allows members of Mubarak’s former ruling and now disbanded National Democratic Party to be candidates in future parliamentary elections. In April 2011, just weeks after protests forced Mubarak to resign, the Supreme Administrative Court dissolved the NDP and ordered its funds and property handed over to the government. AFP
