Egypt's Morsi admits making mistakes in 1st year in office

Source:Xinhua Published: 2013-6-27 8:56:52

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi admitted on Wednesday that he has made mistakes since he came to office in June 2012.

"I made efforts along with honest people, so sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong," the president said in what he referred to as "a disclosure speech" that he is delivering on Wednesday evening.

"I bear my share of responsibility for the current conditions and I am working for correcting them," he said.

Mosri meanwhile said he has been facing "a war" aiming at making him fail after he was elected as president.

His speech comes only days before the planned protests on June 30 against him and his Muslim Brotherhood group that were urged by activists and opposition leaders who seek to oust Morsi and hold an early presidential election.

Hours before Morsi's speech, clashes in Daqahliya governorate of Egypt killed two and injured over 230 people after supporters of Morsi staged a march calling for backing the legitimacy of the Islamist-oriented president.

Meanwhile, hundreds flocked to the Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, the center of the massive demonstrations that led to the fall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, in preparation for sit- ins. They are mainly from the "Rebel" campaign, which has over the months collected more than 15 million signatures against Morsi.



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