On 4 December, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif announced that the Egyptian Government planned to hold a Constitutional referendum in summer 2007 on whether to replace the current state of emergency with anti-terrorism legislation. The state of emergency has been in place in Egypt since 1981, when President Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
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