CAIRO
A coalition of largely Islamist parties and groups that support ousted president Mohamed Morsi has called for mass rallies on Monday to press for his reinstatement.
"We will remain in the squares until victory," the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy said in a statement read out by Mahmoud Fathi, leader of the Islamic Virtue Party.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was deposed by the army on July 3 following mass protests against his regime.
The military also suspended the constitution and named Adly Mansour, the head of Egypt's constitutional court, as interim president.
Morsi supporters have since taken to the streets nationwide in mass demonstrations and sit-ins to defend his democratic legitimacy and demand his reinstatement.
Thousands of Morsi loyalists took to the streets on Friday to denounce what they call a 'military coup' against the elected president.
"The Egyptian people have taken to the streets to prove that they are determined to regain their revolution," Fathi told thousands of supporters in Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square in eastern Cairo.
He insisted that the "revolution is continuing until putting an end to the bloody military coup and the reinstatement of the constitutional legitimacy".
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