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A man walks over a graffiti reading "Morsi Go" on November 25 in the landmark Tahrir square in Cairo/AFP

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Morsi, judges to hold Egypt crisis talks

On Sunday, Morsi stressed the “temporary nature” of the measures, valid only until a new constitution is adopted and elections held, and which “are not meant to concentrate power” but devolve it to a democratically-elected parliament.

The measures were also “deemed necessary in order to hold accountable those responsible for the corruption as well as the other crimes during the previous regime and during the transitional period.”

Long-time president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life, along with his interior minister, over the killing of protesters in the uprising last year that eventually ousted him, in which some 850 activists died.

Six security chiefs were acquitted in the same case, sparking nationwide outrage.

New investigations have been ordered into the deaths, and Egypt’s new prosecutor general Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah said “revolutionary courts” would be set up.

The presidency also on Sunday stressed its commitment to engaging all political forces in dialogue “to reach a national consensus on the constitution, which will be the cornerstone of Egyptian modern institutions.”

But ElBaradei, a former UN nuclear watchdog chief, and ex-presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi, Amr Mussa and Abdelmoneim Abul Futuh said on Saturday that they would have no dialogue with Morsi until he rescinded his decree.

The Muslim Brotherhood has called a “million man” demonstration on Tuesday in Giza district near Cairo University, to coincide with a huge demonstration planned by Morsi opponents for Tahrir Square on the opposite side of the Nile river.

The FJP says Morsi’s decree was necessary to prevent the courts from disbanding the Islamist-dominated panel drawing up the new constitution. The judges have slammed what they termed “an unprecedented attack on the independence of the judiciary.”

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