Mursi Pressure Grows as Egypt’s Salafists Back Unity Government
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Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is under mounting pressure to bring rivals into government, as a powerful Islamist party joined calls by the secular opposition for a unity coalition to ease a week of violent protests.
Mursi cut short a visit to Germany yesterday and returned to Egypt, where protesters have been calling for him to quit even as he signaled a retreat on emergency measures imposed on three Suez Canal provinces. Deadly clashes there accounted for most of the more than 50 killed over the past week. Curfews in all three provinces were eased by their governors hours after Mursi granted them authority to revise the measures.