An Egyptian high court on Monday overturned a decision to ban members of former president Hosny Mubarak's now-disbanded party from running in the November parliamentary elections, dpa reported.
Judge Magdy al-Agati of the Supreme Administrative Court overturned a verdict issued last week by a lower court in the northern city of Mansoura, which had banned members of the former National Democratic Party from running for office.
That court said Mubarak loyalists had "spread corruption and undermined democracy" in Egypt for the past three decades.
The elections, set to begin on November 28, will be Egypt's first since Mubarak was toppled in a popular revolt in February.
The pposition had been pressing the country's military rulers to bar Mubarak loyalists from running for office.
But in October, several political parties comprised of Mubarak loyalists pushed back in a series of nationwide rallies warning against their exclusion from politics.