The Military Chief General Al Asisi in televised address announced the interim roadmap and said that Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Adli Mansour has been named as interim President of Egypt.
While protestors in Tahrir Square celebrating the departure of President Morsi, many Egyptians remained sceptical about this military coup in Egypt by overthrowing the elected government of President Morsi by force.
Egypt’s armed forces and Islamist President Mohamed Mursi refused to back down on Wednesday as a deadline for a military takeover passed with rival demonstrators out in force in the streets of Cairo.