ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Thousands of demonstrators streamed onto Cairo's streets on Tuesday , marching to the Presidential Palace to protest against President-elect Mohamed Mursi's decision to call a December 15 referendum on what it called an illegitimate draft constitution.<br/> <br />An alliance of Egyptian opposition groups enraged by Mursi's decision had called for protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday.<br/> <br />Security forces and soldiers closed all roads leading to the presidential palace with razor wire fences to prevent the demonstrators from accessing the presidential seat of power.<br/> <br />In a statement issued after a meeting on Sunday, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, the alliance of liberal, leftist and socialist parties accused Mursi of putting the interests of the Muslim Brotherhood - the group that propelled him to power in a June election - ahead of the interests of the nation.<br/> <br />It said Mursi had "broken his promise not to put the constitution to referendum before gaining wide national consensus around it, which did not happen".<br/> <br />Mursi called the referendum after formally receiving the final draft of the constitution on Saturday from the Islamist-dominated assembly that drafted it.<br/> <br />Demonstrators outside the presidential chanted "leave… leave" as they tried to get into palace grounds.
