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BREAKING NEWS: Morsi cancels decree

Al-Jazeera reports Selim al-Awa, an Islamist politician acting on Morsi’s behalf, announced Morsi’s executive decree has been cancelled at a news conference sometime around midnight local time. “The constitutional decree is annulled from this moment,” al-Awa said. The move comes on the recommendation of the national dialogue meetings Morsi attended earlier Saturday, Reuters reports. The vote for the Islamist-authored constitution will ho ahead as planned, though, which has led some critics to speculate Morsi only cancelled his decree because he doesn’t need it anymore:


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