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Leading liberal Egyptian politician Mohamed ElBaradei is to be named prime minister, the BBC understands.
Mena state news agency says he is meeting interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour, three days after the army removed Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi amid growing nationwide unrest.
The move in turn triggered violent unrest by Morsi supporters on Friday.
Mr ElBaradei, a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, leads an alliance of liberal and left-wing parties.
In a BBC interview on Thursday, Mr ElBaradei defended the army's intervention, saying: "We were between a rock and a hard place."
"It is a painful measure, nobody wanted that," he said. "But Mr Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself a few months ago as a pharaoh and then we got into a fist fight, and not a democratic process."
More than 30 people died and hundreds were wounded in Friday's protests by Islamist supporters of the deposed president.
Huge crowds have demonstrated again in Cairo on Saturday to demand his reinstatement.
Meanwhile opponents of Mr Morsi have called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he belongs, on Sunday.
He is in detention, along with some senior Brotherhood figures.
Mena state news agency says he is meeting interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour, three days after the army removed Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi amid growing nationwide unrest.
The move in turn triggered violent unrest by Morsi supporters on Friday.
Mr ElBaradei, a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, leads an alliance of liberal and left-wing parties.
In a BBC interview on Thursday, Mr ElBaradei defended the army's intervention, saying: "We were between a rock and a hard place."
"It is a painful measure, nobody wanted that," he said. "But Mr Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself a few months ago as a pharaoh and then we got into a fist fight, and not a democratic process."
More than 30 people died and hundreds were wounded in Friday's protests by Islamist supporters of the deposed president.
Huge crowds have demonstrated again in Cairo on Saturday to demand his reinstatement.
Meanwhile opponents of Mr Morsi have called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he belongs, on Sunday.
He is in detention, along with some senior Brotherhood figures.
