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The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil: “This is a major sign of compromise on the president’s part”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has offered a concession to opponents by annulling a decree that hugely expanded his powers and sparked angry protests.<\/p>\n

But a controversial referendum on a draft constitution planned for 15 December will still go ahead.<\/p>\n

Halting the referendum is a key demand of the opposition and some have already dismissed Mr Morsi’s latest move.<\/p>\n

The president’s critics accuse him of acting like a dictator, but he says he is safeguarding the revolution.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Said, head of the Free Egyptians Party, a leading member of the main opposition National Salvation Front coalition, said Mr Morsi’s latest announcement was “shocking” as it did not halt the referendum.<\/p>\n

The National Salvation Front will meet on Sunday before issuing a formal response.<\/p>\n

‘Duping the people’<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Morsi’s decree of 22 November stripped the judiciary of any right to challenge his decisions and triggered violent protests on the streets of Cairo.<\/p>\n

“The constitutional decree is annulled from this moment,” said Selim al-Awa, an Islamist politician acting as a spokesman for a meeting Mr Morsi held with political and public figures on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But he said the referendum on a new constitution would go ahead because it was not legally possible for the president to postpone it.<\/p>\n

The meeting had been boycotted by the main opposition leaders who had earlier called for their supporters to step up their protests.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Jon Leyne in Cairo says Mr Morsi’s move is the first big sign of compromise but that it is unlikely to end the current crisis.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent says the tanks, barbed wire and concrete blocks around the presidential palace show what great pressure Mr Morsi is under.<\/p>\n

Ahmed Said told Reuters news agency that Mr Morsi’s latest move would “make things a lot worse”.<\/p>\n

“I cannot imagine that after all this they want to pass a constitution that does not represent all Egyptians,” he said.<\/p>\n

Another opposition group, the April 6 Youth Movement, said the announcement was “a political manoeuvre aimed at duping the people”.<\/p>\n

Some opposition protesters on the streets were also unimpressed by the decree annulment.<\/p>\n

One, Amr al-Libiy, told Reuters: “He didn’t change his decision or the constitutional decree until people were killed… so we will not leave until he leaves.”<\/p>\n

However, another told Associated Press he hoped the move would “end the bloodshed”, saying: “We called for something and now it’s been achieved.”<\/p>\n

Pro-Morsi protesters have also continued to demonstrate – angry at what they say is media bias against the president.<\/p>\n

Set on fire<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the decree has been annulled, some decisions taken under it still stand.<\/p>\n

The general prosecutor, who was dismissed, will not be reinstated, and the retrial of the former regime officials will go ahead.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Egypt’s powerful military warned it would not allow Egypt to spiral out of control and called for talks to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n

“Anything other than that (dialogue) will force us into a dark tunnel with disastrous consequences; something that we won’t allow,” it said.<\/p>\n

The president’s supporters say the judiciary is made up of reactionary figures from the old regime of strongman Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n

But his opponents have mounted almost continuous protests since the decree was passed.<\/p>\n

They are also furious over the drafting of the new constitution because they see the process as being dominated by Mr Morsi’s Islamist allies.<\/p>\n

Several people have been killed in the recent spate of anti-government protests, and the presidential palace has come under attack.<\/p>\n

The Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the movement to which Mr Morsi belongs, were set on fire.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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