Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today sought to placate protesters demanding his ouster by promising to sack his entire cabinet, and name a new one at some point on Saturday. He insisted however that he would retain his position as president.
Which seems not to have satisfied protesters, and if anything convinced many of them to retake the streets after his speech, insisting his ouster was the only one that really mattered. Some had been calling for the removal of Interior Minister Habib El Adly, who is in charge of the police. It is unclear at this point if the promise to sack the cabinet will include his replacement.
A large portion of Egypt’s current cabinet came into place in July 2004, after the resignation of many in then-Prime Minister Atef Ebeid’s cabinet. Specualtion about what the “new” cabinet will look like is rampant right now, but there seems to be very little indication that they will mark a stark change in government policy, nor that they will be enough to calm the growing protests across the nation.
Though there seems to be a sense that the overall direct of the Egyptian government is far out of line with the will of its population, very little of the outrage is against random cabinet members, and the office of president seems to be the only one that matters for most protesters.
I wonder if Antiwar is taking note of the contrast between the way the media and political elites are framing the actual freedom movement in Egypt, to the way they framed the largely fake one in Iran.
Too little too late!
The Egyptians demand the donkey gone (Mobarak) yet US/UK and some others insist on changeing the saddle (Govt.)
It looks and smels and yes it tastes so much like the Iranian 1979 revolution.
Dariush Aggassi / Berlin
Stubborn,
people are fed with his image all over the country for 30 years and what he does is changing his cabinet
He might as well refurnish his office.
He has to go that's the price for those who already been killed and he wants more dead until he leave office which he will one way or another.
Ben Ali left the country and that has minimize the death toll
New Cabinet my ass! The people are right and this US puppet needs to go. That is why they are in the street. Of course they might need Hilary to help them out. LOL
hey that should make everything OK