Egypt court orders parliament dissolved Egypt has been plunged into deep political uncertainty just two days before presidential elections, by a supreme constitutional court ruling invalidating the country's recently-elected parliament, and casting doubts over the constitutional assembly it had recently formed. "The ruling regarding parliament includes the dissolution of the lower house of parliament in its entirety because the law upon which the elections were held is contrary to rules of the constitution," Farouk Sultan, the head of the constitutional court, told Reuters. Egypt's military rulers will need to call for new parliamentary elections, he added. In a separate ruling, the same court affirmed the rejection of a law passed by the parliament that would have barred former ranking officials of the regime of Hosni Mubarak from running for higher office, thereby affirming the candidacy of Ahmed Shafiq, a former cabinet minister and premier, who is running against Islamist Mohamed Morsi in the election. The rulings, by judicial panels mostly appointed by the Mubarak regime, outraged many, and crowds of protesters began to head to Tahrir Square in central Cairo.