CAIRO
— Egypt awoke to widening
protests Friday from a resurgent opposition testing a president who refuses to
rein in his power while he presses for an unpopular constitution drafted by an
Islamist-dominated assembly.
President Mohamed Morsi is defending his expanded authority and the proposed
constitution as necessary to hold parliamentary elections and advance Egypt's
political transition. But opposition groups accuse him and the Muslim
Brotherhood of pushing an authoritarian agenda that has failed to inspire an
Arab world undergoing great change.
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