The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision Thursday to dissolve the elected parliament and allow former Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq to contest the presidential election this weekend will generate heated debate. However, the decisions strike me as a new building block in the complex and erratic process that has been under way in Egypt for the past 17 months: the steady reconfiguration and relegitimization of a rotten political system. Despite some turbulence ahead, this is a healthy development for several reasons.
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