Mursi, the frontrunner who won 24.77 per-cent of the vote in the first round of elections in May and will square off with presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq on June 16-17, vowed there would be “no more injustice or corruption in society,” Egypt Independent reported.
“We shall no longer be submissive to the West,” he said at a rally on the outskirts of Cairo.
He also vowed to provide medicine and equal employment opportunities for all, promising the crowd at a marketplace that he would solve all their problems.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court announced Wednesday that it will judge on June 14 the constitutionality of the political isolation law that may disqualify Shafiq from the runoff of presidential election, Egyptian media reported.
Although there has been speculation on whether the judgment on the electoral law is valid, if applied, the law could throw the Egyptian election into a whole new scenario.
The law states that those who served as vice president or prime minister under Mubarak, or held high rank in his National Democratic Party in the decade leading up to his ouster, would not be able to hold public office for a period of ten years.
But the recommendation from the Egyptian judicial body, however, could overturn the electoral law, on the basis that the Presidential Elections Commission’s referral of the Political Isolation Law to the court is “invalid,” the newspaper reported.
The Political Isolation law was passed in April to bar top Mubarak-era officials such as Shafiq from running for president.
The law was initially drafted in response to a presidential bid by Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s vice president, who the PEC disqualified from the race on different grounds.
The Supreme Constitutional Court is scheduled to hear the case on 14 June, two days before the presidential runoff begins. The court is not obligated to accept the opinion of the commissioners.
Darul Ihsan Media Desk