CAIRO: The recent Egyptian Cabinet reshuffle announced on Sunday, and expected to be sworn in on Tuesday, has left many activists and protesters calling for quicker reform frustrated. Leading youth movement, the April 6 movement, said on Monday that they were disappointed in the recent moves made by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, but added in statements that they still supported the embattled PM. They said that the moves were “not enough,” arguing that the ministers of justice and interior remain in their positions despite widespread calls for their removal. The group said they would continue to support PM Sharaf despite “some of the past mistakes in the new the governmental reshuffle.” “The continuation of Environment Minister Maged George and Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul-Naga and Minister of Electricity Hassan Yussif in addition to Minister Of Higher Education Motaaz Khorshid, one of the people who was affiliated with the National Democratic Party, are changes that carries mistakes from the past,” said Mohamed Adel, a spokesperson for the movement said in a released statement on Monday. He added that the potential nominees list for the shuffle carried a number names for these positions. “Until now the the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces hasn't changed the General Prosecutor and replaced him with one of the highly qualified independent judges and hasn't mentioned any intention to remove Gawdat al-Malt,” Adel added. Gawdat al-Malt is the head of the Central Auditing Organization and was long part of the Judicial Corps of the State Council and is considered by many to be part of the old regime. The group confirmed their participation in the continued sit-in in downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere in the country as long as there are affiliates from the disbanded NDP part of the new government. Prime Minister Sharaf announced the new reshuffle on Sunday under public pressure for change and had hoped that the moves would appease protesters. Instead, the protesters appear more emboldened to continue their demonstrations until further demands are met. They have called for Sharaf to remove more ministers who are associated with the former regime and violence against protesters. BM
