Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Cairo, said that the new law is not a done deal yet, as the elections commission is still considering implementing it and that Ahmed Shafiq's campaign is still in full swing. But what if the law is implemented and Shafiq is kicked out of the race? Tadros said:

A lot of people are questioning the legality of this whole process and the fact that the elections commissions has the final say on who is and who is not in this race. Now in terms of Ahmed Shafiq's possibility of winning the race, they were probably pretty slim, and his disqualification would probably aid Amr Moussa, another candidate, in winning.