{"id":38489,"date":"2015-03-07T13:28:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38489"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:30:35","slug":"law-banning-dual-nationality-egyptians-from-parliament-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/law-banning-dual-nationality-egyptians-from-parliament-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Law banning dual-nationality Egyptians from parliament unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled Saturday unconstitutional a law banning dual nationality citizens from running in parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling opens the door for further postponement of parliamentary elections after an administrative court ordered a halt to all preparations for the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative court&#8217;s order followed the SCC ruling unconstitutional parts of a different parliamentary election law.<\/p>\n<p>While the parliamentary vote was initially set to start 21 March, new poll dates are yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has been without a parliament since the House of Representatives elected in late 2011 was dissolved in June 2012, following a court ruling that judged the law regulating its election to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday\u2019s session, the SCC ruled the first section of Article 8 in the Parliamentary Elections Law unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed by lawyer Essam El-Islambouli.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/124644\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Law-banning-dualnationality-Egyptians-from-parliam.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/124644\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Law-banning-dualnationality-Egyptians-from-parliam.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) ruled Saturday unconstitutional a law banning dual nationality citizens from running in parliamentary elections. The ruling opens the door for further postponement of parliamentary elections after an administrative court ordered a halt to all preparations for the vote. The administrative court&#8217;s order followed the SCC ruling unconstitutional parts of a [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38490,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489\/revisions\/38490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}