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| Egypt election: Ahmed Shafiq allowed to run for president | Egypt election: Ahmed Shafiq allowed to run for president |
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| Egypt's supreme court has ruled that former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq can continue to run for president in elections this weekend. | Egypt's supreme court has ruled that former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq can continue to run for president in elections this weekend. |
| The court had been considering a law that would have barred him from standing for office on the grounds that he was a member of the former regime. | The court had been considering a law that would have barred him from standing for office on the grounds that he was a member of the former regime. |
| In a separate ruling, the court has decided that the election of one third of MPs last year was unconstitutional. | In a separate ruling, the court has decided that the election of one third of MPs last year was unconstitutional. |
| It is unclear whether those seats now need to be contested in a new election. | It is unclear whether those seats now need to be contested in a new election. |
| Mr Shafiq is standing against the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi. | Mr Shafiq is standing against the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi. |
| The court had been asked to rule on a law passed by parliament banning senior officials from former President Hosni Mubarak's regime from standing for office. | The court had been asked to rule on a law passed by parliament banning senior officials from former President Hosni Mubarak's regime from standing for office. |
| It has decided that his candidacy is still valid. | |
| The court was also considering the validity of last year's parliamentary election, because some of the seats were contested on a proportional list system, others on a "first-past-the-post" system. | The court was also considering the validity of last year's parliamentary election, because some of the seats were contested on a proportional list system, others on a "first-past-the-post" system. |
| It has found that those elected on the "first-past-the-post" system were unconstitutional. | It has found that those elected on the "first-past-the-post" system were unconstitutional. |
| Many of those seats were won by the Muslim Brotherhood. | |
| Deadlock? | |
| The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says it is unclear what will happen next. | The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says it is unclear what will happen next. |
| The elections will have to be re-run, he says, but it is not clear who has the authority to dissolve parliament and order a new vote. | The elections will have to be re-run, he says, but it is not clear who has the authority to dissolve parliament and order a new vote. |
| At very least, he says, it will hamper the work of parliament, and possibly result in deadlock if parliament refuses to dissolve itself. | At very least, he says, it will hamper the work of parliament, and possibly result in deadlock if parliament refuses to dissolve itself. |
| There was a large security operation outside the court as demonstrators gathered for the judgement. | |
| A barbed-wire fence was constructed around the court grounds to keep protesters out. Rows of police in riot gear stood guard. | |
| Many demonstrators shouted slogans and held posters demanding that Mr Shafiq be disqualified. | |
| One activist, Mohamed Abdel Quodous, said Mr Shafiq should be disqualified because he was considered a "remnant of the old guard" and was a "humiliation to Egypt and its revolution". |