According to presidential decree no. 11 of 2012, decree no. 350 of 2012 by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) dissolving the People’s Assembly, the lower house of the two-chamber Egyptian parliament, is repealed.

The decision also included a call for holding snap elections within 60 days after parliament approves the nation’s new constitution.

Former People’s Assembly Speaker Dr. Sa’d al-Katātnī will call a session within 48 hours.

SCAF held an extraordinary meeting on Sunday (July 9) under its Chairman, Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantāwī, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, to discuss the reverberations of Mursī’s decision. [Ahmad al-Batrīq, Ibrāhīm al-Bahī and Muhammad Fū’ād, al-Ahrām, July 9, p. 1] Read original text in Arabic