The protesters few in number had spent the night around thirty tents set up by opponents in Tahrir Square. On the eve of thousands of people had gathered shouting "Mursi dictator" in Tahrir Square, epicenter of the revolt of 2011 that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak. That day, the offices of the Party for Freedom and Justice (PLJ) were burned in the cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailiya . An Islamist party official also indicated that the party offices were taken in the city of Alexandria , where clashes broke out between protesters for and against Mohamed Mursi. The protests were triggered after Mursi , first president of the Islamic civil and most populous country in the Arab world (after the fall of Hosni Mubarak in January 2011), would claim a "constitutional declaration" the right to take any decision or measure to protect the "revolution" last year to grab and powers to the judiciary. Mursi had, until now, the control of the executive and legislative branches , as the Parliament had been dissolved by the military junta two days before the second round of presidential elections, in that transitional stage in which assumed command. The president, who won with nearly 52% of the vote in the second round of elections, resigned his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood after learning his victory in the elections. Mursi is, therefore, the first civilian to access the presidency and the first head of state elected in democratic elections in the history of Egypt, although not underestimate the power of miiltares in a country that since 1953, after the fall of the monarchy, was led by generals.
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