Shafik to Run for President

Ex-Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafik, has been approved to run for president when Egypt’s constitutional court ruled against a law that would have thrown him out of the race, today.

The court also declared that some of the rules in a parliamentary election that ended earlier this year and which handed control to Islamists were unconstitutional. The court found that the seats of one third of members were void, those that were running for individual purposes without a party nomination.

It has been said by many political experts that the parliamentary ruling could lead to the dissolution of parliament or a re-run for the seats affected. The presidential vote that pits Shafik against the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsy goes ahead on Saturday and Sunday.

With this being said, Egypt now will be facing its fate on who is to become Egypt’s next president for the next 4 years and wether the results will be accepted by all parties and what are going to be the aftermath of it all.