"It's a media stunt, to divert attention from the constitutional decree, " said demonstrator Taha Shaker, referring to a move by the military council stripping the presidency of some powers.
The cries grew louder when the SCAF issued a constitutional decree as polls closed that stripped the incoming president of many of his powers, including oversight of the armed forces.
He also named Mahmoud Mekki as his vice president, and he reversed a June constitutional decree by the Supreme Council that claimed to retain legislative authority until a new parliament could be sworn in near the end of the year, Ali said.
The announcement that Milosevic was in U.N. custody came after a day of drama that began when Yugoslavia's Constitutional Court suspended the decree allowing his extradition.
Attorneys for the former Yugoslav president asked the Constitutional Court to rule on the decree and to declare it unconstitutional.
But Morsy capped the week by making a power play to wrestle control of the constitutional drafting process by issuing a decree giving him unchecked powers.
Al-Muslim saw one solution as a Constitutional Court ruling against the one-vote decree.
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Mohammed Hayef, a former opposition MP, wrote on Twitter afterwards that the emir had told them that he would accept a ruling by the Constitutional Court on the amendments he made by decree.
As a constitutional-court judge, he once overruled a government decree that would have allowed headscarves on campus.
The Scaf then issued a decree on Friday dissolving parliament in line with a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the law on elections to the lower house was invalid because party members had been allowed to contest seats reserved for independents.
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