Tahrir 2.0

After the mass protests that lasted the last three days in Cairo and other cities of the country, the Egyptian government was forced to resign. The resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers, led by Prime Minister Isama Sharaf, should still be approved by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of the country, which, in particular, managed to convince the majority of government members to continue to work and, if necessary, return to this issue after the elections.

In general, conflicting messages are received about the details of what is happening. According to some reports that the Air Force gives, the military will not accept the government’s resignation until the new candidate for the post of Prime Minister Egypt will be found.

However, the Egyptian media called the name of the probable candidate almost immediately after the current government announced his intention to stop working.


According to RIA Novosti , the al-Baradei candidate support the largest political forces, since it is considered a strong and independent politician having international authority. They have no objections to the appointment of al-Baradei for the post of prime minister and the largest Islamic Muslim Brothers in Egypt.

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Nevertheless, the world in Egypt did not come and nine months after the beginning of the revolution. The Cabinet of Ministers, led by Isama Sharaf, was forced to announce his resignation after fierce clashes between police and protesters who require political changes in the country. Three -day unrest on Tahrir Square, flashed on November 19, became the most large -scale and bloody since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February this year.


On November 21, protesters barricaded Tahrir, set fire to the barricades around the square and began to throw stones towards the police and the military. Those answered the demonstrators with batons and tear gas. Although the forces of law and order deny the use of military weapons, the opposition demonstrate to foreign cartridges from used cartridges. Moreover, the demonstrators argue that the police this time acts more rigidly than during the ex-president of Mubarak.



Meanwhile, the demonstrators gathered in the square require not only the resignation of the government. They also oppose the Military Council, and, in particular, Field Marshal Hussein Tantaui, who has governed the country since February 11 of this year. According to protesters, the military too tightened the process of transferring power into the hands of the president and parliament chosen by the people. They demand that the presidential election this spring, and not in 2013. In the meantime, according to the information of the Arab media, only the Minister of Culture of Egypt Imad Abu Razi, who thus protected against the hard suppression of unrest in Tahrir Square, filed in resignation.

Multi -stage parliament elections should begin in Egypt next week, November 28, but


As follows from surveys, only 21 percent of the Egyptians believes that the current government acts in the interests of the people, while 43 percent of the respondents are sure: military generals intend to negate all the achievements of the revolution.

After Hosni Mubarak, ordinary Egyptian citizens did not notice serious improvements in their lives. Until now, the main problems of the country remains prices and unemployment. Now those who again took to the streets of Cairo are sure that the transfer of power to the military after the overthrow of Mubarak was a mistake. “We should not have left the streets. We gave the power to the military on a saucer with a blue bucket, ”said one of the protesters in Cairo, 33-year-old Ahmed Imam.

Foreign media, in turn, say that


In the meantime, Tahrir Square is still busy with demonstrators. On Tuesday, November 22, the next mass protest rally under the slogan “We will save the Fatherland!” Was planned, the organizers of which were about 40 youth parties and movements. The action is scheduled for 16:00 local time (18:00 in Moscow).

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