Egypt’s opposition formally refuses dialogue with Mursi, several marches planned for today.

Egypt’s opposition formally refuses dialogue with Mursi, several marches planned for today.(AA).Egypt’s opposition coalition rejected on Friday a dialogue proposed by President Mohammed Mursi to defuse bloody protests over sweeping powers he assumed to speed through a new constitution.
The National Salvation Front said it had decided “to refuse to take part in a dialogue proposed by the president for tomorrow, Saturday.”
Opponents of President Mursi vowed to take on the capital’s streets to protest against the leader expanding his power, Al Arabiya correspondent reported Friday.
The coordination committee, which is grouping anti-Mursi parties and movements, is planning 17 marches to head to the presidential palace after Friday prayers. The committee dubbed the Friday protests as the “final ultimatum” if Mursi doesn’t back off from his constitutional declaration.
The Constitution Party, Egyptian Popular Current, the Revolutionary Socialist Movement, April 6 Movement, the Egyptian Liberal Party and the Egyptian Social Democratic Party said they are collaborating to go on in a one-million-man march, they described as “red card” to Mursi.
Early Friday, some demonstrators were already grouping in Tahrir Square to get ready for the Friday protest.
Mursi has defied calls to curb his sweeping powers or suspend proposed changes to the constitution, infuriating thousands of protesters who have clashed bloodily with his supporters in recent days.
In an address broadcast live on Thursday, Morsi vowed to push on with a December 15 referendum on the controversial new constitution, saying “afterwards, there should be no obstacle and everyone must follow its will.”
As he was wrapping up his speech, protesters stormed the Cairo villa housing the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood which backed him for the presidency.
“Two hundred thugs went to the headquarters. Security tried to prevent them, but some got through the back door, ransacked it and set it on fire,” AFP reported Brotherhood spokesman Mahmud Ghozlan as saying.
Police outside the three-storey building said it was a limited blaze and that riot officers had pushed demonstrators back.
An AFP correspondent at the scene said there were fierce clashes between hundreds of stick-wielding protesters and police, who fired tear gas.
Seven people died in clashes between Mursi’s Islamist supporters and his mainly secular opponents on Wednesday in Egypt’s worst political crisis since Mursi took office in June. Another 644 people were injured, medical officials said.
The army on Thursday ordered the square in front of the presidential palace cleared of protesters from sides, deploying tanks and setting up barbed wire.
In his speech, Mursi said more than 80 people had been arrested.

Egyptian anti-President Mohamed Morsi protesters are launching what they say is the final attempt to find a way through the current impasse. The protesters will be marching across the capital, Cairo, on Friday in continued action against the president, who they argue is unwilling to compromise and is taking dictatorial stances over the country’s future.
Here is a list of the marches (more information and contact information can be found on Facebook):
1. A march from al-Nour Mosque in Abbassiya just after Friday prayers
2. A march from Anwar Mosque after Friday prayers
3. March from Nasr City (Rabaa Adawiyyah Mosque) after Friday prayers
4. March from Jamaluddin Afghan Mosque Square (Heliopolis) after Friday prayers
5. March from Abu Bakr mosque (Sheraton) after Friday prayers
Second action: Marches in Giza to the Federal Palace
1. March from Mustafa Mahmoud Dokki Metro Station to Saray Station and then to the Federal Palace
2. Salam Mosque pyramid march to the Giza metro station and then to Saray Station and then to the Federal Palace.Read the full story here.