An Egyptian administrative court halted the elections process in Alexandria's El-Raml constituency late Wednesday, ruling that the results are invalid due to the presence of a disqualified candidate in the elections.

The court ordered that re-elections take place within a period of 60 days.

The disqualified candidate won 60 percent of votes submitted at El-Raml polling station after a committee overseeing the voting failed to remove his name from ballot papers in time.
El-Raml constituency is composed of four seats.

The popular businessman Ali Elba got the majority of votes in a polling station in El-Raml neighborhood in Egypt’s second-biggest city after he was disqualified from the parliamentary race by a court ruling.

Elba was reportedly disqualified due to previous court convictions.

The new elections law stipulates that it is the court's role not only to rule on the validity of the electoral process but also to determine a time frame for re-elections when needed.

According to the head of the committee that supervises elections in Alexandria, Abdallah El-Khouli, the candidate was disqualified just one day before the elections and the ballot papers had already been printed.

The first stage of Egypt’s long-delayed parliamentary elections took place on Sunday and Monday. The second stage will be held on 21 and 22 November.