The head of a legal team that has filed a lawsuit defending President Mohamed Morsy’s decision to restore the People's Assembly said the team would not remain silent about what it says is the politicization of rulings by the Supreme Constitutional Court.
The court had ordered the dissolution of the lower house of Parliament due to the unconstitutionality of an electoral law, but on Sunday Morsy ordered the People's Assembly to resume sessions, prompting the court to issue a new ruling to stop his decision.
The lawyers, who have filed an appeal of the ruling as well as a complaint with the public prosecutor, are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood but have not been publicly appointed by Morsy or the group to represent them.
In statements to satellite channel Al Arabiya, lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud said that the court had invalidated a third of the People’s Assembly reserved for independent candidates — the share contested by the lawsuit — and then went on to nullify the remaining two thirds.
The Supreme Constitutional Court does not have the authority to determine whether the membership of MPs is legal, Abdel Maqsoud alleged.
He also claimed that the court issued its ruling and sent it to be printed in the Egyptian Gazette, the official publication for new laws and government decisions, four hours before the final session.
