Groups of protesters have assembled in Tahrir Square to express opposition to presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister. Shafiq and Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, will compete in a runoff planned for June 16 and 17.
A ruling next week by Egypt’s supreme court may bar Shafiq from the runoff as the court weighs in on the so-called “political isolation” law, which would prohibit former top regime leaders from running for office. Crowds in the square have been chanting “the judiciary must be cleansed”, Al Jazeera English reports.
