The Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau held a meeting Saturday to discuss the possibility of forming a coalition government led by the Brotherhood's Deputy Supreme Guide, Khairat al-Shater, Al-Masry Al-Youm has reported. The parliamentary bloc of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, meanwhile, met on Saturday in preparation for the People's Assembly sessions scheduled for Sunday and Monday. Mohsen Rady, a senior FJP member, said the party will allow other parties to have ministers in the proposed coalition government, just as it allowed them to head some of the People's Assembly committees. Rady told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the Ministry of Information will not be abolished or merged with another ministry at this point, but will be abolished at a later stage because the party does not wish to have a ministry impose its guardianship over the media. Waheed Abdel Maguid, general coordinator for the Brotherhood-led Democratic Alliance, said the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is not ready to change Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri's cabinet, and is indeed not aware of the "catastrophe" Egypt is facing. The Brotherhood is trying to provide a solution through the formation of a coalition government but the SCAF is rejecting help, he said. Ahmed Khalil Khairallah, spokesperson for the Salafi-led Nour Party's parliamentary bloc, said his party supports calls for the formation of a coalition government, provided it is a technocratic government that has popular support. The FJP is communicating with the Nour Party to form a coalition government, he said, adding that Nour does not want to take charge of particular ministries. Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
