New Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi will offer cabinet posts to the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, a report says.
“Some cabinet posts will be offered to the Freedom and Justice Party,” presidential spokesman Ahmed al-Muslimani was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, interim President Adly Mahmoud Mansour appointed 76-year-old former Finance Minister Beblawi as the country’s interim prime minister and 71-year-old opposition politician Mohamed ElBaradei as deputy to the president.
The appointments came six days after the army ousted President Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader, in a military coup.
In a televised speech late on July 3 night, Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that Morsi, a former leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, was no longer in office and declared that the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Mansour, had been appointed as the new interim president of Egypt.
The army also suspended the constitution.
Army officials said ousted President Morsi, who took office in June 2012, was being held Å“preventively” by the military and might face formal charges over accusations made by his opponents.
Mansour was sworn in as interim president in a ceremony in Cairo on July 4.
On Friday, tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood activists and their supporters took to the streets across the country to protest against the coup, and clashes broke out between pro-Morsi and opposition protesters and security forces that left 36 people dead and more than 1,000 injured.
In the wee hours of Monday morning, a deadly shooting at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood activists and their supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of Morsi, left at least 55 people, including several children, dead.
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Republished with permission from: Press TV