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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Mursi evacuated Tahrir Square with tear gas


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 MursiThe 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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