The High Constitutional Court will begin hearing the Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission's appeal regarding the Political Disenfranchisement Law on 14 June, according to Maher Samy, the court's vice president.

Mass protests broke out across Egypt on Saturday calling for the implementation of the law on Mubarak's ex-prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq.

According to the law, a limited number of individuals who served in top positions during the last ten years of Hosni Mubarak’s rule – including Shafiq – would be ineligible to enter the presidential race or run for public office for the next five years.

The court will also hear an appeal by the Supreme Administrative Court into the constitutionality of the parliamentary elections law.

Some provisions in the law allowed members of political parties to run for seats originally reserved for independent candidates, which left independents who were not members of parties with very few seats in the parliament.

Samy said the court would hear the two appeals after a report was prepared reflecting the legal opinion of the court's commissioners.