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The Court declared Article 3 of the law on electoral districting unconstitutional, which means it must be amended before the coming parliamentary elections are rescheduled, days before they were due to start. 

The ruling could be seen as just a technical glitch that can be rectified by forming a committee, amending two or three articles of the law, and rescheduling election procedures. Seen this way, it’s a simple matter of little concern.

Egypt's administrative court on Tuesday ordered a halt to all preparations for parliamentary elections previously scheduled to start on 21 March.

 The administrative court ordered the High Election Commission (HEC) to cease all its preliminary preparations for the elections in accordance with Sunday’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) decision that deemed parts of the electoral laws unconstitutional.

Following the SCC's decision, the HEC referred its rulings to the administrative court for a final legal review.

Después de más de dos años y medio sin Parlamento, la formación de la nueva Asamblea Popular de Egipto deberá esperar aún más tiempo del previsto. El domingo por la mañana, el Tribunal Constitucional declaró inconstitucional la ley electoral que debía regir las elecciones legislativas, cuya primera vuelta estaba prevista para los próximos días 22 y 23 de marzo. El fallo obliga a suspender los comicios, la última etapa de la hoja de ruta de la transición aprobada tras el golpe de Estado del Estado de julio del 2013, hasta la aprobación de una nueva normativa.

Egypt's president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday urged the cabinet to amend a law regulating parliamentary elections, which the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled on Sunday were "unconstitutional", within a month.

Earlier in the day, the Higher Electoral Commision (HEC) put parliamentary elections previously set for March on hold, following a SCC ruling which deemed the Elections Constituency Division Law “unconstitutional.”

The Elections Constituency Division Law determines the number of voters per constituency and their representation.

Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) is expected to look into the constitutionality of three laws regulating the country's parliamentary elections on Wednesday, in a ruling that could delay voting set to start on 21 March.

March's parliamentary elections are the third and final step in a political roadmap set forth by the Egyptian army following the ouster of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, after a vote to ratify the constitution in January 2014 and presidential elections in June 2014.

La Comisión Electoral de Egipcio excluyó hoy la candidatura a las elecciones parlamentarias presentada por magnate egipcio Ahmed Ezz, cercano al dictador Hosni Mubarak, informó la agencia de noticias egipcia, MENA.

El portavoz oficial de la Comisión, Omar Marauan, explicó en declaraciones recogidas por la agencia que "la exclusión de Ezz se debe a que no ha presentado una cuenta bancaria con los costes de su campaña (electoral), ni la declaración de su patrimonio ni la de su esposa".

La Comisión Electoral egipcia amplía dos días el plazo para presentar candidaturas para las elecciones parlamentarias. La ausencia de una oposición fuerte y la vuelta de los hombres del exdictador Hosni Mubarak, serán las claves de estos comicios que comenzarán en marzo y terminarán en mayo de este mismo año. 

Partidos y candidatos independientes apuran los últimos momentos para concurrir a las próximas elecciones parlamentarias. La Comisión Electoral ha ampliado el plazo hasta este jueves para presentar todos los documentos.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and leaders of Egypt's mainstream political parties stressed in a meeting on Sunday that the country's long-delayed parliamentary polls must go ahead as scheduled next March.

The meeting came a few days after at least 30 people were killed in coordinated militant attacks on Thursday in the restive North Sinai governorate, including army personnel and civilians.