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Uncertainty looms over Egyptian presidential polls following court ruling | An Egyptian administrative court has ruled in favor of a lawsuit which suspended this month’s presidential election in the country, a decision which left the nation’s ruling military council bemused. The court found that
the Supreme Presidential Election Commission did not have the power to set a date
for the election, which it scheduled for May 23-24 and only the military council
could set the time. According to the Los Angeles times, the military council had
initially granted the Election Commission the authority to schedule the poll.
However, hours before the judicial decision, military leader Field Marshal Mohamed
Hussein Tantawi announced that voting would not be delayed. The decision seemed
to highlight the erratic nature of the country’s politics ahead of its first freely
contested presidential election, which indicated that Egypt , which last year
helped to inspire uprisings across the Arab world, is still struggling to move
beyond the legacy of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
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