Egypt judges refuse supervision of presidential elections
Egypt, Politics, 5/14/2005

The Egypt's judges club has rejected unanimously judicial supervision of the presidential and parliamentary elections due in September.

News reports in Cairo said that the General Assembly of the Egypt's Judges club set a precondition on Friday on the Egyptian government in order to assume supervision of the elections. This precondition is to issue a law for starting political rights with guarantees ensuring complete independence of the judges in supervising the elections.

The judges refused to be "an instrument in the hands of the authority in order to falsify the views of the voters." They stressed their cling to the judicial authority law and their rejection of the draft law proposed by the state and find it a violation to their demands, in remarks to the constitutional amendments of article 76.

Thousands of the supporters of the Kefaya ( enough) opposition movement and supporters of the ruling party in Egyt had gathered on Friday in front of the Egyptian journalists and lawyers trade unions before the judges had started their extraordinary meeting.

In the context of the intensified political situation in Egypt, news reports said that the Egyptian unionist progressive coalition party is heading towards withdrawing the nomination of its leader Khaled Mohey Eddine to the next presidential elections. No explanations were issued by the party on reasons for this forthcoming decision.

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