An Egyptian parliamentary committee has agreed to implement a July court ruling that declared Amr El-Shobaki the winner of the parliamentary seat of Dokki and Agouza, and asked the house to invalidate the membership of sitting MP Ahmed Mortada Mansour "as soon as possible."

In a closed-door meeting held on Monday morning led by deputy speaker El-Sayed El-Sherif, decided that ‎in accordance with a ruling issued by the Court ‎of Cassation in July, independent parliamentary candidate and ‎political analyst El-Shobaki should be declared ‎the legitimate winner of the parliamentary elections ‎in Dokki and Agouza district in 2015, and that he ‎should be seated instead of Mansour.‎

El-Shobaki told several newspapers on Sunday ‎that many members of the committee had ‎assured him that the court's ruling ‎would be approved by the committee on Monday ‎and that he would be seated as the legitimate MP ‎of Giza's Dokki and Agouza district.

Mansour, a member of the Free Egyptians Party ‎and son of controversial Zamalek sports club president ‎Mortada Mansour, also a sitting MP, was initially declared the ‎winner in the runoff elections for the seat in ‎October after narrowly beating columnist El-Shobaki by a mere ‎‎700 votes.‎

El-Shobaki, however, reacted by filing an appeal ‎before the Court of Cassation, which holds the authority to issue final ‎verdicts on election appeals.

After reviewing a new ‎count of the votes, the court found that El-‎Shobaki came ahead of Mansour by 301 votes (El-‎Shobaki won 21,898 votes to Mansour's ‎‎21,597) and as a result should be ‎declared the winner of the seat. ‎

A report has to be prepared by the committee on constitutional and legislative affairs before the matter is ‎discussed in a plenary session.

El-Shobaki expects ‎that he will be seated before the end of ‎November.‎

Many independent MPs and a number of political parties, including the Wafd Party, have ‎announced that they are in solidarity with El-‎Shobaki and intend to vote in ‎favour of seating him.‎