Liberal economist and former Finance Minister Hazem al-Beblawi was named Egyptâ„¢s interim prime minister on July 9, 2013.
Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour has appointed liberal economist Hazem al-Beblawi as the country’s interim prime minister and Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president, state media reports.
Mansour named former Finance Minister Hazem al-Beblawi Egyptâ„¢s new prime minister and former International Atomic Energy Agency chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, new vice president for foreign relations, presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani said on Tuesday.
The appointments come almost a week after the military deposed President Mohamed Morsi and declared the chief justice of Egyptâ„¢s Supreme Constitutional Court, Adly Mansour, as caretaker president.
ElBaradei was initially tipped to lead the cabinet but his nomination was rejected by the Salafist Nour party.
The Nour party, which quit government talks following deadly clashes in Cairo on Monday, later said it would agree to have the former finance minister, Samir Radwan, as the new prime minister.
Shortly after Beblawi’s appointment, the Egyptian Army warned all parties against disrupting the “difficult and complex” transition in the country.
“The future of the nation is too important and sacred for maneuvers or hindrance, whatever the justifications,” Egypt Armed Forces Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a statement carried by state TV.
The warning comes amid growing opposition against Mansour’s constitutional declaration, which lays out a timetable for presidential election and outlines the president’s powers.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which calls the ouster of Morsi as a military coup, said the plan for constitutional changes and a vote next year Å“brings the country back to square one.”
Egypt’s opposition Tamarod movement also dismissed the interim charter as “dictatorial” and a “setback to the revolution.
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Republished with permission from: Press TV