A leading member of Egypt's main opposition coalition has said that President Mohammed Mursi's decision to press ahead with a referendum on a new constitution is "shocking" and will deepen a political crisis.
Mr Mursi has also announced that he has relinquished far reaching powers he had awarded himself and which had led to violent street protests.
"It is making things a lot worse," Ahmed Said, a leading member of the main opposition National Salvation Front, said
The head of the liberal Free Egyptians Party told Reuters. "I cannot imagine that after all this they want to pass a constitution that does not represent all Egyptians."
Mr Said said the Front would meet later today to give a formal response.
The announcement that Mursi had scrapped his 22 November decree followed talks yesterday that ran into the night at his presidential palace.
Billed as a "national dialogue", the meeting was boycotted by his main rivals and had little credibility among protesters in the most populous Arab nation.
The April 6 Youth Movement, which helped galvanise street protests against former president Hosni Mubarak, said in a statement about the outcome of yesterday's talks: "What happened is manipulation and a continuation of deception in the name of law and legitimacy."
The constitution was fast-tracked through an assembly led by Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists. Liberals and others walked out, saying their voices were not being heard.
After yesterday's talks, Mr Mursi issued a new decree in which the first article "cancels the constitutional declaration" announced on 22 November, the spokesman for the dialogue, Mohamed Selim al-Awa, told a news conference.
But he said the constitutional referendum would go ahead anyway next Saturday, adding that although those at the meeting discussed a postponement, there were legal obstacles to a delay.
The political turmoil has exposed deep rifts in the nation of 83 million between Islamists, who were suppressed for decades, and their rivals, who fear religious conservatives want to squeeze out other voices and restrict social freedoms.
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