Egyptians awaiting the fate of their president were on edge as the military took control of television studios in Cairo and its two-day ultimatum deadline for Mohammed Morsi expired.
"Panic, anxiety, just a couple of the words we've heard from Egyptian citizens as they wait for answers," CBC reporter Nahlah Ayed tweeted from Cairo.
Egypt's leading democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei and top Muslim and Coptic Christian clerics met Wednesday with the army chief to discuss a political road map for Egypt.
The meeting signalled the military was taking concrete moves toward implementing its plan to replace Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected leader, who came to office a year ago. The deadline was to expire between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET (4 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time).
"It certainly appears the army is not planning on taking a back seat," Ayed said.
Morsi has vowed not to step down in the face of three days of massive street demonstrations calling for his ouster. At least 39 people have died since the protests began on Sunday.
Under a plan leaked to state media, the military would install a new interim leadership, the Islamist-backed constitution would be suspended and the Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved.
Opposition spokesman Khaled Dwoud announced the meeting in a live telephone interview with state television.
ElBaradei is the leader of the main opposition grouping, the National Salvation Front. He was accompanied in the meeting with army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi by Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of Al-Azhar mosque, and Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority.
In a television address early Wednesday morning, Morsi ignored the voices coming from massive protests calling for him to resign, reminding Egyptians of his election and about the need to protect his constitutional legacy.
The statement showed that Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood — who sought power for 80 years before obtaining it last year — were prepared to run the risk of challenging the army.
It also entrenches the lines of confrontation between his Islamist supporters and Egyptians angry over as what they see as efforts to impose control through the Brotherhood and Morsi's failures to deal with the country's multiple problems, including a devastated economy.
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