Egypt’s Opposition Rejects Referendum - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Maggie Fick

Maggie Fick

Dec 9, 2012

An anti-Mursi protester gestures to soldiers marching outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo December 9, 2012. A concession offered by President Mohamed Mursi failed to placate opponents who accused him on Sunday of plunging Egypt deeper into crisis by refusing to postpone a vote on a constitution shaped by Islamists. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) — An anti-Morsi protester gestures to soldiers marching outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo, Dec. 9, 2012. — REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

Muslim Brotherhood supporters of Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi fight with an anti-Morsi protester during clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo December 5, 2012. Islamists fought protesters outside the Egyptian president's palace on Wednesday, while inside the building his deputy proposed a way to end a crisis over a draft constitution that has split the most populous Arab nation. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

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An Egyptian woman shows her vote on the new Egyptian constitution at the Egyptian consulate in Dubai, December 12, 2012. Egyptians abroad went to embassies on Wednesday to vote in a referendum on the new constitution that President Mohamed Mursi fast-tracked through an Islamist-led drafting assembly, drawing the ire of the opposition. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: POLITICS)

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Followers of Egyptian Salafist preacher Hazem Abu Ismail protest outside a police station after security agents raided his office in Cairo December 16, 2012. The raid followed an attack by Islamists on the offices of an opposition party newspaper on Saturday, as people voted on a new constitution intended to pull the country out of a growing political crisis. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

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