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President Mursi agrees to delay referendum:
Egyptian PM
Sunday December 09, 2012 08:57:02 AM,
RIA
Novosti
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Cairo: Egyptian President Mohamed
Mursi has agreed to delay the
referendum on a new draft constitution and make amendments to his
constitutional declaration, Prime Minister Hisham Qandil said
Saturday.
"President Mursi and the country's political forces are discussing
legal ways to delay the referendum. The president does not object
to a postponement of the vote," Qandil said.
Mursi is meeting with leaders of several opposition political
parties in his residence. The sides are discussing ways out of the
current political crisis in the country as part of a national
dialogue the president called for Thursday.
"The country's political forces and the president, who gathered on
Saturday to hold a national dialog, have agreed to establish a
commission to amend the constitutional declaration," Qandil said.
Mursi's Nov 22 constitutional declaration expanded his executive
authority by barring the courts from challenging his decisions.
The country's highest judicial authority, the Supreme Judicial
Council, earlier called Mursi's move "an unprecedented attack on
the independence of the judiciary and its rulings".
Opposition groups have been rallying against the constitutional
declaration and Mursi's decision to hold a nationwide referendum
on the new Constitution Dec 15, which they described as too hasty.
The postponement of the referendum is one of the Egyptian
opposition's key demands.
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