Egypt's High Constitutional Court has ruled unconstitutional an article regulating the election of independent MPs to the Shura Council, the upper house of parliament currently holding legislative powers.
As a result of the ruling, the Shura Council will be dissolved after a new House of Representatives, lower house of parliament, is elected.
The court also said the law governing the composition of the Constituent Assembly, the body tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution, is unconstitutional.
