Egypt’s military rulers seized broad powers after the supreme constitutional court dissolved the country’s first democratically elected parliament yesterday in what political observers said amounted to a coup d’état.
The move came after the constitutional court ruled that a third of seats in the lower house were invalid, plunging the country into political uncertainty two days before presidential elections.
It, in effect, cancels an Islamist-dominated parliament assembled over months of elections that were hailed as a triumph of democracy by the international community.
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