Egyptian President Names Prime Minister

Source: NY Times

The new prime minister is Hesham Kandil, the current Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, and Mr. Morsi reportedly asked him to assemble a new cabinet that could replace the current one, which had been appointed by the military after the fall of President Hosni Mubarek.

The decision came a week after a deadline that Mr. Morsi, a former Muslim Brotherhood activist, had set to name his cabinet. So far no announcement about other members of a new government has been made, and the country’s ministries remain under the control of figures from the Mubarek era.

The delay suggested that Mr. Morsi had been having difficulty forming the national unity government that he had promised voters, and there may also be problems satisfying military leaders, who were expected to want control of security ministries.



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