CAIRO (AA) - The National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy, a coalition of largely Islamists parties and figures supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, is threatening civil disobedience against the army-backed administration.
"Within 48 hours we will announce all the details about civil disobedience," Reda Fahmi , a senior Alliance figure, told the Anadolu Agency on Monday.
"This is the natural turn of events."
Supporters of Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, have been staging daily mass protests and sit-ins to protest his ouster by the powerful military on July 3.
The two largest sit-ins are in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in eastern Cairo and Nahda Square in Giza.
"The civil disobedience plan would paralyze the coup leaders and would leave them caught between either backtracking on their failed coup or face trial over high treason," Fahmi claimed.
He argued that Morsi supporters have enough popular support to render civil disobedience a success.
"There is already a semi-civil disobedience in the country. People are already on the streets nationwide," he claimed.
"All we need to do is just mobilize people and direct that into a civil disobedience that would paralyze state institutions, which are already working on a 30-40 percent capacity."
