Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has told the Egyptian people that he made mistakes. This he said while marking his first year in office on a nationwide broadcast.
In his words, he said that the polarised state of the country's politics was threatening democracy and could plunge the nation into chaos.
In an address to the nation from Cairo on Wednesday, he acknowledged that he made errors but also blamed unspecified "enemies of Egypt" for damaging the democratic system that sprung out of the uprising of 2011.
"Political polarisation and conflict has reached a stage that threatens our nascent democratic experience and threatens to put the whole nation in a state of paralysis and chaos...The enemies of Egypt have not spared effort in trying to sabotage the democratic experience...
"I stand before you as an Egyptian citizen, not as the holder of an office, who is fearful for his country," he said before saying he would review his first year in office.
"Today, I present an audit of my first year, with full transparency, along with a road map. Some things were achieved and others not...I have made mistakes on a number of issues."
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