Civil disobedience entered a third day in a row in Egypt's Port Said governorate on Tuesday with hundreds of residents refusing to go to work and rejecting a Monday statement made by President Mohamed Mursi.
Mursi had said that he intends to present a new draft law to the Shura Council (legislature) to restore the free-zone policy in Port Said and allocate 400 million Egyptian pounds from the Suez Canal revenues to developing the three Canal cities (Port Said, Ismaliya and Suez).
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