Morsi ousted: Egypt army suspends constitution, calls early elections
Egypt's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the army has stepped in to transfer power from Egypt's Islamist President Mohammad Morsi to a technocratic government ahead of early parliamentary and presidential polls.
Egypt's military chief announced Wednesday that it was stepping in to transfer power from Egypt's Islamist President Mohammad Morsi to a technocratic government ahead of early parliamentary and presidential polls.
"President Mohammad Morsi has failed to meet the demands of the Egyptian people,” Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a televised address to the nation Wednesday, al-Arabiya reported.
Flanked by Muslim and Christian clerics and opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei, al-Sisi vowed "not to exclude anyone or any movement" from Egypt's political process.
He said Egypt's military did not plan to become involved in politics, but was responding to the demands of the people, as witnessed in some of the largest protests ever seen. But shortly after he spoke, to fireworks and ecstatic cheers of anti-Morsi protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Sqaure, the Muslim Brotherhood's television station "went blank," the Associated Press reported.
