Egypt: A Soon Governmental Amendment, Al-Shater to Replace Qandil

Hassan Al-Qabbani

Sources close to the Egyptian presidency revealed to al-Ahed news that "a governmental amendment will take place in the coming period."

According to the sources, Egypt is to witness a change in the posts of 8 ministers in addition to the current Prime Minister, Hisham Qandil.

Meanwhile, the former presidential candidate and deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Khairat al-Shater, is the luckiest to take over the PM's post.
The sources confirmed that al-Shater's name is greatly circulated in media. However, they noted that the possibility of replacing Qandil isn't final as is the case of the ministerial amendments.

This comes as a number of Egyptian activists on the social "Facebook" network demanded the appointment of al-Shater as the new PM after the constitution's approval.

In this context, the head of the Arab Center for Economic and Political Research, Ahmed Mattar, affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood Movement, stressed that " a ministerial amendment is to occur within a few days."
"The changes will include ministries of finance, petroleum, electricity, agriculture, supplying, communications and local development," he added.

He further clarified that "this change comes within six positive effects of adopting a new real constitution: the end of the critical transitional period, as well as that of misty, chaos and the launch of the institution-building phase."
"These institutions are headed by the Parliament, the commissions and the transfer of legislative authority from the President to the Consultative Council for a period of 3 months," Mattar said.

In parallel, he highlighted that "economical investments, the stock market and exchange rate showed an improvement as 48 political parties were competing for 498 seats in the first elections."
Earlier, the minister of Legal Affairs and Parliamentary Councils, Mohammed Mahjoub, called for the resignation of Qandil's government after the adoption of a new Egyptian constitution.

In a comment on his Twitter account, Mahjoub stated: "The government should resign now...It should start to face the next stage with new visions and different tools."

Source: al-Ahed News, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org