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Monday, December 10, 2012

EGYPT | dialogue fails The opposition rejects the strategy and calls for new protests Mursi


The opposition stands before Mursi and his challenge of maintaining the constitutional referendum on Dec. 15. new marches are directed towards the presidential palace to protest the new constitutional declaration announced on Saturday night, which overrides the president's judicial shield but preserves 'the consequences' of the decree, as the Constitution adopted by most Islamist and dismissal of the Attorney General. "We have broken the barrier of fear.'re Going to tear down today, rather than tomorrow, the Constitution that undermines our rights and freedoms ... Our strength is in our control, "said on Twitter the Nobel Peace Prize Mohamed ElBaradei coordinating the opposition National Salvation Front. "Our struggle for a new constitution is not about who is in power but on the nature of the state and the rights and universal values ​​looking forward, not backward," added the veteran diplomat. The liberal and leftist parties that make up the Front announced its official position following a meeting to discuss the annulment of the Constitutional Declaration of November 22 and the enactment of a new decree which does not meet the demands by the opposition bloc released: annulment the plebiscite of the Constitution and formation of a new Constituent Assembly truly representative. Meanwhile, five demonstrations start from different districts of Cairo with direction Ittihadiya presidential palace in Heliopolis district, where the army has erected a concrete wall to keep the crowd back to access the perimeter surrounding the complex. On Wednesday, clashes between supporters and opponents of President left seven dead and more than 600 wounded more so have deepened the pit that separates Islamists and secular. Behind the call is contesting the April 6 Youth Movement, a key organization in the riots that forced out Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. And that, in a statement, denounced the result reached by the last night dubbed "national dialogue meeting" which consists of 40 figures, mostly Islamists, and that the opposition did not attend. Speaking to Reuters, President of the Free Egyptians Party-Front member, has called a "shocking" the agreement and the determination to keep the date of the plebiscite on a text "that represents all Egyptians."

Change everything so that nothing changes

The opposition believes that the move of Islamists is simply a review of the maximum change everything so that nothing changes and the result only serves to deepen the institutional crisis facing the country and that is derailing the constitutional transition began after the revolution of the past year. Last night, a statement earlier annulled Nov. 22 but with the important caveat that "all its consequences are still valid." So when Mursi closing chapter has lead to fruition one of the main reasons that raised his decretazo: Ensuring a constituent assembly dominated by Islamists and secular and Christian boycotted and save her from the clutches of the Constitutional Court, which must decide on its legality. With the shield in place, the committee accelerated the final draft of the Constitution, the trial and approved for submission to referendum of December 15. Now, with the plebiscite to six days ahead, the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist allies (sticklers) take for secure victory in urns that have agitated during these weeks as a solution to social polarization and opposition protests. In the unlikely event of the imposition of "no", the new decree stipulates the formation of a new constituent assembly elected by direct vote within three months and would have another six months to produce a new text. The new presidential statement maintains the decisions to replace the attorney general and reopen investigations and prosecutions of those involved in the killing of protesters during the 25 January revolution and the violent events recorded along the transition until after June 30.Although the text removes the judicial shield Mursi, stresses that all statements are final constitutional justice.

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