CAIRO, March. 3 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's administrative court on Tuesday ordered the delay of the parliamentary elections set for March 21, after another top court ruled parts of the electoral laws "unconstitutional."
According to the ruling, the parliamentary elections will be held after amendments to the electoral laws are finalized and approved.
On Sunday, Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled an electoral law article which regulates the division of the constituencies of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections "unconstitutional."
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered that the law be redrafted within a month and demanded that " all legal measures be taken to avoid delaying the elections."
Egypt's electoral commission said Sunday it was preparing a new timetable for the polls.
Egypt's parliamentary polls were supposed to kick off on March 21 until May 7, the first since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the military in July 2013.
Egypt has been without a parliament for three years, after the House of Representatives elected in late 2011 was dissolved in June 2012 in line with a court ruling.
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