CAIRO - The April 6 Youth Movement Wednesday organised protests at the headquarters of governorates nationwide calling for the ouster of governors whom the activists viewe as remnants of the Mubarak regime. The protests were part of the celebrations staged by the activist movement of its fourth anniversary as the group was launched in Spring 2008 , initially to support workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, a Nile industrial stronghold, who held a strike on April 6, 2008. “April 6, 2008 was a historical day in the the march of resisting the corruption of the former (Mubarak) regime,” the Movement said on its website. Members of the movement Wednesday stressed that they would not allow the remnants of the Mubarak regime, or the farmeerly ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), and thugs “to steal the (25 January) revolution”. Later in the day, ceremonial celebrations were held at the Press Syndicate, and were attended by potential candidates for presidency later this year: Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa; ex-former UN nuclear watchdog, Mohamed Elbaradei; judge Hesham el-Bastawisi; founder of el-Ghad party Aymen Nour; former MP Hamdeen Sabahi ex-assistant Foreign Minister Abdullah el-Ashal. Several entertainers artists and prominent public figures attended too. The group is pushing for putting Movement, namely trying Mubarak and members of his family on trial, restoring looted money, cleansing all the State institutions of the lackeys of the former regime, punishing the corrupt, dissolving the National Democratic Party.
