After days of protests calling for Egypt's president Mohammed Morsi to step down, the Egyptian miltary stepped in and ousted Morsi and the protesters celebrated with fireworks.
In a terse televised statement Wednesday evening, Defense Secretary Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi—joined by important Muslim, Coptic and oppositionchiefs—announced Mr. Morsi's ouster. The head of Egypt's highest court—Adly Mansour, a judge who was named to the position only two days earlier—would take over from Mr. Morsi effective immediately, he said.
Mr. Mansour is tasked with leading a technocratic government that will be "inclusive of all political factions" including youth, who Gen. Sisi said would be "empowered" under the terms of the new government.
Gen. Sisi also suspended the constitution that Mr. Morsi and his Islamist allies pushed through late last year in a controversial referendum, and charged the Supreme Constitutional Court with addressing the draft law for parliamentary elections.
Details of the video below- President Mohamed Morsi has been stripped of his power by the Egyptian army and the constitution has been suspended, General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said in a statement. Egypt's chief justice of the constitutional court will become the interim president. Fireworks were set off over Cairo's Tahrir Square and across the city in celebration
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Details: Millions of Egyptians took to the streets of the country's cities to celebrate the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi who was deposed on Wednesday after a military coup. In a televised address, Egyptian army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi informed the public that Morsi had been removed due to his failure to accommodate the public's demand for reforms.
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"Since last November, 2012, they started to call for a national dialogue with all political parties have responded, and it was rejected by the president in the last moments," Sisi said in the televised address.
He laid out the number of times the military has attempted to work with Morsi to agree on reforms to no avail. Sisi said that Morsi has been removed from office as a result of his disagreements with the military and the country will enter a transitional phase before to new elections can take place.
Sisi informed the public that the country's supreme court chief justice will assume the role of acting president during that transitional period. After new elections are held, the country should draft a new constitution to replace the one drafted under the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Following his announcement, the streets of Egypt exploded with jubilation.
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