After the Egyptian Constitutional Court overruled the disenfranchisement law, the military council affirmed that the runoff stage of presidential elections will be held as scheduled on Saturday and Sunday A statement issued by SCAF said the runoff voting stage will be held on time next Saturday and Sunday and that there will be no changes on that schedule. On Thursday afternoon, Egypt's High Constitutional Court found Egypt's Political Disenfranchisement Law – which had threatened presidential finalist and Mubarak-era PMAhmed Shafiqwith disqualification from the race – unconstitutional. The ruling will allow Shafiq to contest the presidency against Muslim Brotherhood candidateMohamed Mursiin a runoff vote on 16 and 17 June. A second ruling, meanwhile, found Egypt's Parliamentary Elections Law – which regulated last year's legislative polls – to be similarly unconstitutional. The latter verdict means that both the People's Assembly and the consultative Shura Council (the lower and upper houses of Egypt's parliament) will likely be dissolved in anticipation of new elections.