Most newspapers issued in Cairo this morning focused on the beginning of the school year, the call for a general strike for state-employed teachers across ten governorates, and the appointment of a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to the Constitutional Court to convince political forces to accept the electoral system approved by the Council. Youm7 The first day of the academic year witnessed a call for a general strike by government employed teachers, causing the Ministry of Education to call on social workers and educators to meet the shortage of teaching staff in schools. Elections for the Lawyers' Union are scheduled for October 15. Candidates are campaigning for the position of chairman and the membership in the general union and in union branches. The Popular Initiative to Recover Funds Looted from Egypt announced it had contacted officials in Madrid, who agreed to deport Ghali to Egypt. Al-Ahram General Sami Enan, Vice President of the SCAF and Egyptian Chief of Staff, met heads of political forces and approved political parties to discuss how to conduct the upcoming elections. At the end of official talks in Egypt, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, expressed his country's willingness to cooperate with Egypt, pointing to the formation of a tripartite committee of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia to discuss matters concerning the three countries, specifically the construction of the Millennium Dam in Ethiopia. Al-Akhbar Al-Akhbar reported that the government is re-considering a law on the division of constituencies and discussing various modifications to the electoral law. Election dates will be announced soon. Wael Shalaby, Assistant Secretary of the State Council, said all headquarters of the disbanded National Democratic Party and State Security buildings across Egyptian governorates would be converted into courts of the State Council. Al-Masry Al-Youm A video showing snipers atop the Ministry of Interior aiming at demonstrators was screened Saturday at the Cairo Criminal Court as evidence against former president Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six of his top aides. The accused face charges of murdering protestors. The independent daily reported a continuing shortage of petrol and rising black-market prices, contrary to claims by the Ministry of Social Solidarity that complaints regarding the petrol shortage have ended. Al-Shorouq The Muslim Brotherhood in the Delta governorate of Beheira is investigating some of its members for organizing a Ramadan banquet for potential presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who was expelled from the group for violating its decision not to allow Muslim Brothers to run for the president. Al-Gomhorreya Dr. Hazem al-Beblawy, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, sent an official request to the Central Auditing agency to prepare a detailed report answering questions, accusations and allegations present in the media and public opinion about the Ministry of Finance's takeover of the Insurance Funds Authority. Beblawy said in a statement yesterday that the request from the Central Auditing Agency denotes that law governs all of the ministry's decisions and actions, as the auditing agency is continuously monitoring ministries and state institutions and their various organs. A group of youth coalitions drafted of proposal to be sent to the SCAF, which includes specific dates for the transfer of authority from the SCAF to the president and an authorization from seven leading presidential candidates: Mohamed el-Baradei, Amr Moussa, Dr. Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, Hisham al-Bastawisi, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, and Hamdeen Sabbahi. The state-owned daily said the text of the document read: "Given the seriousness of the situation experienced by Egypt in the current period and the continuing insecurity and lack of clarity in the treatment of the concerns of the Egyptian citizen, seven of the possible presidential candidates met in an initiative to achieve democratization and to consult on current events in Egypt and ways to meet the challenges faced by the nation, and how to translate the people's political, economic and social demands and aspirations on the ground to fulfill the goals of the revolution."
