Tens of thousands in Tahrir Square to oppose Morsi's decree.

Live updates - Tens of thousands in Tahrir Square to oppose Morsi's decree.(Ahram).Multiple marches converge on Tahrir Square in protest at President Morsi's recent constitutional declaration; opposition protests seen across governorates, while president's supporters also hold rallies.

17:25 Lina Wardani, Ahram Online reporter, says that a march made up of around three thousand protesters has just started from Shubra Square, heading to Tahrir. Mohamed Metwalli, a protester in the march, said that he is against the constitutional amendments because it gives the president “unlimited powers.” He added that “Morsi should either leave or cancel the declaration.”
The Fatah Mosque march in central Cairo has increased and now numbers in the thousands. Gameela Ismail, one of the founding members of the Constitution Party, is leading the march. “We will not give up until Morsi cancels the constitutional decree,” she told Ahram Online.

17:20 Political analyst Moetaz-Bellah Abdel-Fattah tells Ahram Arabic website:

"Morsi shot himself in the foot...his declaration united all political forces and opposition against the president...If Morsi wanted to make any accomplishments he should have united all political forces around him but he only focused on winning the elections, and depended on his supporters alone,” he added.

Ex-presidential candidate and head of the leftist Egyptian Popular Current Hamdeen Sabbahi has arrived, according to the Popular Current Twitter page, at the thousands-strong march in front of Moustafa Mahmoud Mosque in the Giza district of Mohandeseen. He will be at the front line as the march leaves for Tahrir after sundown prayers.

17:15 Kamal Abu Eita, the head the Independent Union of Real Estate Tax Agency Employees, has joined a march from the Moustafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandseen. Abu Eita, a long time labour activist, said that he does not trust the Brotherhood any more. He added that he stood in the last parliamentary elections on the Brotherhood’s electoral list, but now regrets it.
"I now know that the Brotherhood does not work for the nation but for themselves only." He also complained that the Constituent Assembly alienated farmers and workers. "All independent syndicates are here today to protest against Moris. Egypt is not all Brotherhood."

17:10 Khaled Metwali, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Coalition, told Ahram Online that the group plans to remain in the square until Morsi backtracks on his constitutional decree. "If the decree is not removed, we will demand that Morsi himself leave. And then we can have new presidential elections.”
Lina El Wardani, an Ahram Online journalist who is on her way from Tahrir Square to Shubra's march wrote on Twitter: "I haven't seen such large numbers since Mubarak's fall in February 2011."
Lawyer Fatma El-Zahraa Al-Ghoneim of the appeal court, who was marching with the lawyers to Tahrir Square, told Ahram Online:
"What Morsi did is illegal, this declaration is not constitutional; its a void decree. We demand the return of [prosecutor-general] Abdel-Meguid, not because of any personal virtue he has, but in accordance with the law. Changing the prosecutor-general should be done legally, and Morsi had promised not to sack him and and to abide by the law”.