Opposition Rejects Morsi's Planned Referendum.

Egypt's opposition National Salvation Front has announced that it won't participate in a December 15 referendum over a disputed draft constitution. Earlier, President Mohamed Morsi has revoked a part of a controversial decree giving him sweeping powers but insisted the referendum on the new document would go forward as planned.

The leader Egypt's Journalists Union, Sameh Ashour, told reporters on Sunday that National Salvation Front leaders has state that they will not participate in the constitutional referendum due to take place next Saturday.

He says that the National Salvation Front categorically refuses to indulge in the December 15 referendum and definately will not give its blessing to any vote that will inevitably cause more divisions and civil strife.

Ashour went on to blast President Morsi along with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group for their decision to go ahead with this constitutional referendum.

He says that this National Salvation Front insists that what they calls repression, despotism along with the hijacking of the state by the new president and his (Muslim Brotherhood) group is triggering the economic woes of most Egyptian families.

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Earlier Sunday, Egyptian Air Force jets overflew center of Cairo at low altitude, since the country's political crisis continued  unabated. A some few hundred anti-Morsi protesters were clustered at both Tahrir Square and near the presidential palace.

Calls by the opposition for any protest march to the presidential palace did not appear to spur a main outpouring of demonstrators Sunday. Nonetheless, opposition leaders are calling for any million-man demonstration on Tuesday.