8 Official Journal – Issue No. 22 (bis) on 03 June 2013 ballot paper. He was announced among the winners in this phase. Then, he took part in the runoff election and won the membership of the Shura Council. He was granted membership card no. (139), as stated in the session minutes dated 07/07/2012 at the Higher Administrative Court, according to the statement made by his lawyer at the time he filed an application for joint intervention at the administrative body. Such means that during the Shura Council elections conducted in Luxor under the individual electoral system in February 2012, candidates fielded by political parties competed with independent candidates unaffiliated to such political parties, including the plaintiff. Based on the above, and whereas the first paragraph of Article (2) of law No. 120/1980 on the Shura Council determines the percentage that shall be elected under each electoral system and says that two thirds of the members of the Shura Council shall be elected by the closed party-list system and one third shall be elected by the individual system. Also, the first paragraph of Article (8) of this law, replaced by decree law no. 109/2011, sets out the requirements for applying for the Shura Council membership in the constituencies allocated for the individual electoral system, and refers Article (24) of the same law, replaced with decree law No. 109/2011, to the provisions of Article (9 Ibid "a") of law No. 38/1972 on the People's Assembly, added by decree law No. 108/2011, so that they apply to the Shura Council. Therefore, the final candidate list under the individual system shall include the party with which the candidate is affiliated. This comes along with the legislature's explicit desire for limiting candidacy for the membership of the People's Assembly within the two thirds allocated for closed-party list electoral system to members of political parties only and granting the right to candidacy for the remaining one third allocated for individual system to both political party candidates as well as independents who are not affiliated with political parties. So, the recognition of such competition left those affiliated to political parties with two options for applying for the Shura Council membership. Those options are the closed-party list and the individual system, of which the independent candidates are deprived, where they may only run for such membership through the one third elected under the individual system, even though party candidates compete with them in this percentage as well. Hence, the interest in the submitted lawsuit exists through challenging paragraph (1) of Article (2) of law No. 120/1980 on the Shura Council, replaced with decree law No. 120/2011, as well as the first paragraph of Article (8) of the same law, replaced with decree law No. 109/2011, which allows both political party candidates as well as independent candidates not affiliated with any political party to submit a nomination request for the Shura Council in the constituencies allocated for the individual electoral system. Deciding upon the constitutionality of such provisions will impact the objective lawsuit, the requests submitted therein, and the judgment made by the subject court. The scope of such lawsuit, and the interest thereof, extends to include Article (24) of the law on the Shura Council, replaced with decree law No. 109/2011, which says "...The provisions of Article (9-Ibid"a") of law No. 38/1972 concerning the People’s Assembly shall apply to the Shura Council", added by decree law No. 108/2011, which stipulates that the final candidate list under the individual system shall include the party with which the candidate is affiliated. Whereas Article (24) of the law on Shura Council requires the referral of Article (9-Ibid"a") of the law on People's Assembly so that it applies to the Shura Council means that the provision of such article shall be included within the provisions of the Shura Council law and be an integral part of it that is subject to whatever applies to the rest of the law provisions. Hence, such is not affected by the