"The key demand is that we consider that the crisis has been prompted by the fact that the constitution has been violated.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

President Morsi temporarily gave himself sweeping new powers last month, and pushed ahead a referendum on a controversial new constitution, sparking a political crisis.

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Times of crisis, however, do not justify departure from the Constitution.

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Next to all this, Mr Hollande, a Socialist hack who led a fractious party for 11 years and has never had a ministerial job, is a debutant: his biggest crisis was a 2005 party split over the draft European Union constitution.

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