CAIRO: Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, ratified on Monday, the Corruption of Political Life Law, more commonly known as the Disenfranchisement Law, which bars former members of the ousted regime from holding public office. The state's official Arabic language newspaper, El-Gareeda El-Rasmiya, published the ‘Disenfranchisement law' making it officially a law after it was signed by the SCAF. The Corruption of Political Life Law, more commonly known as the ‘Disenfranchisement Law', which was discussed and approved last week by the People's Assembly, stipulates that a limited number of individuals who served in top positions in the regime of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak during the last ten years of his reign would not be eligible to enter the presidential race set for May of this year, or run for public office for five years.
