2013-07-03 — nytimes.com
Under the banner headline "removal or resignation," Al Ahram reported that the generals would "abolish the controversial Constitution" and form a committee of experts to write a new charter, form an interim presidential council with three members led by the chief of the constitutional court, and put a military leader in charge of the executive branch as an interim prime minister.
Mr. Morsi refused to back down. In an impassioned, if at times rambling, midnight address broadcast on state television, he hinted that his removal would lead only to more violence.
"The people empowered me, the people chose me, through a free and fair election," he said.
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