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| Egypt court bans top Mubarak partisans from running for office | |
| 2014-05-07 | |
| [The Peninsula] An Egyptian court Tuesday banned senior members of the now-dissolved National Democratic Party of ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... from running in upcoming parliamentary elections, a judicial source said.
The Moslem Brüderbund, which dominated all elections after Mubarak's ouster, has been blacklisted and crushed by police following the military's overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July. Tuesday's order by the Cairo Court for Urgent Matters was a temporary injunction ahead of a final ruling, which may take months or even a year. The court based its ruling on the decision to disband the party because of its role during the Mubarak era, saying that allowing its senior members to run would be a "warning bell" of a political comeback. In the past, the constitutional court ruled that laws preventing former NDP members from running for elections were unconstitutional. | |
| Posted by:Fred |