FJP calls for considering court comments in new elections law

Thursday 14-03-2013 11:32 AM
FJP calls for considering court comments in new elections law

Deputy of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party Essam al-Erian - REUTERS

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Head of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)'s parliamentary bloc, Essam Erian, called on Wednesday on the Shura Council (upper house of the parliament) to consider the comments of the Supreme Constitutional Court while drafting the new elections law.

The Administrative Court referred on Wednesday the parliamentary elections law to the High Constitutional Court for review, suspending President Mohamed Mursi's decision to hold the elections on April 22.

"The head of the Shura Council will send the new law to the Constitutional Court to review it before referring it back to the Shura Council for adaptation. The Council must commit to the Court's comments," Erian said in a statement published on the Muslim Brotherhood's website.

Earlier this month, Erian had criticized demands to send the law back to the Constitutional Court to be reviewed after amendment. He said that sending it back would "bring us into a vicious circle."

The deputy of the FJP, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, had said that it is possible for the Administrative Court to cancel its order which resulted in delaying the elections.

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