The Administrative Court is set on Tuesday to address challenges to a court verdict that had dissolved Egypt's lower house of Parliament earlier this month. Former People's Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatny, former Wasat Party MP Essam Sultan and lawyer Nizar Ghorab had filed the challenges. They all demand a reversal of the verdict and the right of the former MPs to enter the Parliament building. The Supreme Constitutional Court on 14 June dissolved the People's Assembly after ruling that some articles of the parliamentary elections law had been unconstitutional. The court said the law allowed party candidates to vie for seats allocated for independent runners, thus violating the principle of equal chances. The petitioners challenged the court's jurisdiction and the constitutionality of the ruling military's ensuing decision to dissolve Parliament. They said denying MPs entry to the People's Assembly building was a flagrant breach of their legal rights as representatives of the Egyptian people. Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
