CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptian protesters took a detour from Tahrir Square to the nearby street where the Egyptian cabinet lies in protest of the appointment of Kamal Ganzouri as prime minister after the previous government led by Essam Sharaf resigned following a series of popular protests against the military ruling council and the government. Some of the protesters said they will try to stop Ganzouri from entering the building, expressing their wish to have a government led by Mohamed ElBaradei and to have Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh as the political affairs deputy. Ganzouri, who held a press conference on Friday afternoon said that the government he will lead will have “more authority than any other governments.” However, he added that no government will be in place before the end of the lower house of parliament elections, which begin on Monday. Ganzouri promised to have 15 percent of his cabinet from the revolutionary youth and the rest will have representatives from all political powers in the country. Ganzouri's previous cabinet, which he led from 1996 to 1999, had many ministers who are now in prison for corruption charges, including Safwat al-Sharif, Yousef Botros Ghali, Yousef Wally and Habib al-Adly, who is facing charges of killing Egyptian protesters during the January uprising, where some 1,000 protesters were killed in 18 days of constant protests. BM
