CAIRO (AP) — Seventeen Cairo-based groups sent a letter Monday to the head of the International Monetary Fund and Egypt’s prime minister opposing a proposed $4.8 billion loan, as technical experts were in Cairo to discuss the details.

The groups complained that the negotiations over the agreement lack transparency, taking place in the absence of an elected parliament and giving the new president legislative authority without oversight — and emerging economic steps target the poor, not the rich.

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