Egypt's top court on Saturday rejected the election law submitted by the Shura Council, or the upper house of the parliament, citing unconstitutionality of some of its articles, official news agency MENA reported.

The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) said the law, which would govern the lower house elections if approved, was unconstitutional as it allowed unfair representation, religious campaign slogans and the president's power to set the elections' date and shorten its period.

On Feb. 18, the SCC rejected the Shura Council's previous election law as unconstitutional. Three days later, the Shura Council endorsed the required amendments approved by President Mohamed Morsi but did not refer the new version to the SCC for ratification.

On March 6, the Administrative Court suspended Morsi's decree to start the lower house elections on April 22 as the election law had not been subjected to the SCC's prior supervision.

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