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Why was Egypt’s Islamist-led lower house of parliament dissolved in 2012?
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Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.
In June 2012, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ordered the dissolution of the Islamist-led lower house of parliament, the People’s Assembly, due to procedural issues that occurred during the parliamentary elections held between November 2011 and January 2012.12
Specifically, the court ruled that the electoral process had failed to comply with requirements mandating that one-third of the seats in the assembly be reserved for independent candidates. This decision, which took place just before the presidential runoff election, was met with significant public outcry, particularly from the Muslim Brotherhood, whose political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, had secured the largest number of seats in the legislature.21