Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rejected plans by the interim leader to hold elections early next year. Source: AAP
EGYPT'S interim authorities are due to start talks on forming a cabinet but face tough hurdles as opponents and supporters alike of ousted president Mohamed Morsi slam a temporary charter aimed at steering the divided nation through a difficult transition.
The military's ouster a week ago of Morsi, after massive protests calling for his resignation, pushed the country into a vortex of violence that has already claimed dozens of lives.
In the restive Sinai peninsula, two people were killed early on Wednesday when militants struck several police and army positions with mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades.
The fresh violence came less than a day after interim president Adly Mansour set a timetable for elections by early next year, and appointed Hazem al-Beblawi as prime minister and Nobel peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president responsible for foreign affairs.
Cracks have emerged in the loose coalition that backed Morsi's overthrow.
The National Salvation Front (NSF), the main coalition formerly led by ElBaradei, denounced Mansour's decree and demanded amendments.
After initially announcing its "rejection" of the decree, it on Wednesday toned down its reaction, saying instead it "disagreed" with some of its provisions.
The Muslim Brotherhood had already rejected Mansour's temporary charter as a decree enforced by "putschists".
Beblawi, a former finance minister and economist, was on Wednesday to begin talks on forming his cabinet, the official MENA news agency said.
He would offer the Muslim Brotherhood posts in the new government, the agency quoted a presidential aide as saying.
But the Muslim Brotherhood spurned the overture. "We do not deal with putchists. We reject all that comes from this coup," spokesman Tareq al-Morsi told AFP.
The continued standoff with Morsi's loyalists, who demand the reinstatement of Egypt's first democratically elected leader, has exacerbated fears of a continuation of the bloodshed that has marked the days since his overthrow.
In the worst incident since July 3, at least 51 people, most of them supporters of the ousted Islamist president, died in clashes outside military barracks in Cairo on Monday.
Amnesty International called for an "independent and impartial" investigation into the events after its findings suggested "the use of disproportionate force by the security forces".
The latest deadly violence took place overnight in Sinai, where militants struck a police garrison with mortar rounds and heavy machine guns, security officials said, while two people were killed in a rocket propelled grenade attack on an army checkpoint according to medics.
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