CAIRO: Egypt's newly appointed Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri is set to announce his full cabinet on Wednesday. El-Ganzouri, however, has reportedly had a difficult time putting together his new cabinet of ministers, set to act as the new “national salvation government,” amid intense protester criticism and rejections from potential candidates. It has been announced that El-Ganzouri has his entire cabinet picked out, with the exception of a new minister of interior. El-Ganzouri announced that the new minister of interior will not be a civilian, as some groups have demanded. El-Ganzouri was appointed as Prime Minister after former PM Essam Sharaf and his cabinet of ministers collectively resigned during nine days of intense clashes between anti-government protesters and state security, in which at least 41 civilians were left dead, along with 3,000 injured. El-Ganzoury has faced intense criticism from various activist and political groups, who have demanded that a new salvation government be formed and granted full political authority over the matters of the state. Several candidates have also rejected positions in the new cabinet, including Nadia Makram Ebid, who was the former minister of environmental affairs, and Moatez Abdel Fatah, who turned down a position as the new minister of youth. On Friday, Egyptian State TV announced that 11 ministers who served in Essa Sharaf's dissolved cabinet will maintain their posts, including Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour and Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr. A sit-in has continued in front of the cabinet building in downtown Cairo, set to prevent the new prime minister and cabinet from entering the building. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/S2pQ3 Tags: featured Section: Egypt, Latest News
