The Supreme Constitutional Court vice president dismissed on Tuesday accusations by political groups that the court shelved challenges against the constitutionality of the parliamentary elections law.
Some groups had accused the court of postponing handling the challenges to wait for instructions from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Maher Samy stressed during a press conference that over the past 40 years, the court worked with utmost impartiality. He described the allegations as “cheap lies.”
Samy said that on 20 February, the Supreme Administrative Court referred the challenge made by Anwar Sobh Darwish to the Supreme Constitutional Court.
“We received the petition on 21 February … and it will be presented 29 March to the court’s commissioners, who will prepare a report on it before submitting it to the court’s judges,” he said, maintaining that the court does not submit to the influence of any authority whatsoever.
The challenge against the law targets the electoral system, which combines single-winner and list-based candidacies. Critics say the combination enabled political parties to compete with independent candidates for the single-winner seats.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
