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LATEST: Egypt’s military has overthrown the country’s embattled president, Mohammed Morsi, and called early elections.
Morsi has been replaced by the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adli Mansour, while the army has also suspended the Islamist-backed constitution.
Army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in a televised address to the nation early today (NZ time), said a government of technocrats will be appointed to run the country during a transition period he did not specify.
Military and judicial sources have said Mansour will be sworn in as interim head of state tonight (NZ time).
An aide of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, Ayman Ali, said the former leader has been moved to an undisclosed location. He gave no details.
A statement on the Egyptian president’s office’s Twitter account has quoted Morsi as calling military measures “a full coup.”
The denouncement was posted shortly after the Egyptian military announced it was ousting Morsi, who was Egypt’s first freely elected leader but drew ire with his Islamist leanings.
Morsi was quoted as saying those measures “represent a full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation.”
After the televised announcement by the army chief, millions of anti-Morsi protesters in cities around the country erupted in delirious scenes of joy, with shouts of “God is great” and “Long live Egypt.”
Fireworks burst over crowds dancing and waving flags in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, epicentre of the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Now it was one of multiple centres of a stunning four-day anti-Morsi revolt that brought out the biggest anti-government rallies Egypt has seen, topping even those of 2011.
Egypt’s second-biggest Islamist party added this morning (NZ time) it had agreed to an army political “road map” that suspends the constitution so that the country can avoid conflict.
“We took this position and we took these decisions only so we stop the bloodshed of our people,” Galal Murra, Nour’s secretary general, said in a televised broadcast.
However, Morsi supporters in Cairo were heard shouting “No to military rule.”
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