Egyptian President Names Prime Minister
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/world/middleeast/egyptian-president-names-prime-minister.html
July 24, 2012
Egyptian President Names Prime Minister
By ROD NORDLAND [Egypt] [Arab Revolutions] [military caretaker continues as Muslim Brothers and Salafist (70% of vote) pushes for quicker transition] [use psci 355-455] [Egypt’s changing society since Mubarak’s downfall in spring 2011] [while the tension continues between SCAF and new president, a PM is named] [followup] [Hesham Kandil, who currently his minister of irrigation?] [followup] [*]
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt named a prime minister on Tuesday, plucking from obscurity the country’s irrigation minister, a holdover from the previous government, according to the official Middle East News Agency.
The new prime minister is Hesham Kandil, the current minister of water resources and irrigation, and Mr. Morsi reportedly asked him to assemble a new cabinet that could replace the current one, which had been appointed by the military after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
The decision came a week after a deadline that Mr. Morsi, a former Muslim Brotherhood activist, had set to name his cabinet. So far no announcement about other members of a new government has been made, and the country’s ministries remain under the control of
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/world/middleeast/egyptian-president-names-prime-minister.html
July 24, 2012
Egyptian President Names Prime Minister
By ROD NORDLAND [Egypt] [Arab Revolutions] [military caretaker continues as Muslim Brothers and Salafist (70% of vote) pushes for quicker transition] [use psci 355-455] [Egypt’s changing society since Mubarak’s downfall in spring 2011] [while the tension continues between SCAF and new president, a PM is named] [followup] [Hesham Kandil, who currently his minister of irrigation?] [followup] [*]
CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt named a prime minister on Tuesday, plucking from obscurity the country’s irrigation minister, a holdover from the previous government, according to the official Middle East News Agency.
The new prime minister is Hesham Kandil, the current minister of water resources and irrigation, and Mr. Morsi reportedly asked him to assemble a new cabinet that could replace the current one, which had been appointed by the military after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.
The decision came a week after a deadline that Mr. Morsi, a former Muslim Brotherhood activist, had set to name his cabinet. So far no announcement about other members of a new government has been made, and the country’s ministries remain under the control of figures from the Mubarak era. [*]
The delay suggested that Mr. Morsi had been having difficulty forming the national unity government that he had promised voters, and there may also be problems satisfying military leaders, who were expected to want control of security ministries.
After his election as the candidate of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, Mr. Morsi resigned from the Islamist group and announced that he would form a government representing all factions.
There was widespread speculation, however, that Mr. Morsi was unable to persuade credible, non-Islamist figures to take the key post of prime minister, and he reportedly asked ministers to remain in their jobs until he was able to assemble a new cabinet.