Some thousands of Egyptians were always together, Saturday, February 12 at dawn on Tahrir Square in Cairo, following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, driven by the Street. After nearly thirty years of authoritarian rule, they hope the army will respect their desire for democratic change. After eighteen days of wrestling, Hosni Mubarak has finally admitted defeat on Friday, just hours after repeating that he would not leave his office until a new president in September.
A 82 year-old former strongman, who was about even a few weeks ago to prepare a dynastic transition, took refuge in Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the Red Sea. The army took direct control of the country through a military council, which did not give details on the "transition phase" which just opened, or on the electoral calendar.
This Supreme Council of the armed forces, led by Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, has promised to "fulfill the hopes of our great nation." It amounts in effect to fulfill the wish of a stable democracy which aspires Egypt but some observers wonder about the wishes of the military, who control the country since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952.
Marshal Tantawi is 75 years old, he was a faithful minister of defense of Hosni Mubarak and U.S. specialists in the Egyptian army reluctant to consider change. Meanwhile, the Egyptians danced, laughed, sang in the hope of witnessing the advent of a new era. On the bridge leading to one input of Tahrir Square, a symbol of popular protest that drove Mr.
Mubarak, a group of young people dancing again Saturday, flying Egyptian flags and fixing cars to congratulate the drivers. "O morning of Victory", cried one of them with a big smile. On the square, many of them were still asleep in the morning but many had spent the whole night awake to celebrate, the hoarse voice so they shouted for joy after the announcement that Mr Mubarak resigned and handed the powers to army.
The army began to remove the barricades, installed in more than eighteen days. Several youth groups were warmed with a heat improvised, while others applauded by activists on a platform calling for the continuation of the "battle" for an Egyptian "democratic". The euphoria has not only invaded Tahrir Square.
She seems to have won the country from Alexandria to Suez, where an entire nation seems to have descended into the streets. Fireworks were fired. Concert horns were launched in the middle of the flags in the national colors, black, white and red. People waved their children above their heads.
Some have their picture taken with smiling soldiers on their tanks. 
A 82 year-old former strongman, who was about even a few weeks ago to prepare a dynastic transition, took refuge in Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the Red Sea. The army took direct control of the country through a military council, which did not give details on the "transition phase" which just opened, or on the electoral calendar.
This Supreme Council of the armed forces, led by Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, has promised to "fulfill the hopes of our great nation." It amounts in effect to fulfill the wish of a stable democracy which aspires Egypt but some observers wonder about the wishes of the military, who control the country since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1952.
Marshal Tantawi is 75 years old, he was a faithful minister of defense of Hosni Mubarak and U.S. specialists in the Egyptian army reluctant to consider change. Meanwhile, the Egyptians danced, laughed, sang in the hope of witnessing the advent of a new era. On the bridge leading to one input of Tahrir Square, a symbol of popular protest that drove Mr.
Mubarak, a group of young people dancing again Saturday, flying Egyptian flags and fixing cars to congratulate the drivers. "O morning of Victory", cried one of them with a big smile. On the square, many of them were still asleep in the morning but many had spent the whole night awake to celebrate, the hoarse voice so they shouted for joy after the announcement that Mr Mubarak resigned and handed the powers to army.
The army began to remove the barricades, installed in more than eighteen days. Several youth groups were warmed with a heat improvised, while others applauded by activists on a platform calling for the continuation of the "battle" for an Egyptian "democratic". The euphoria has not only invaded Tahrir Square.
She seems to have won the country from Alexandria to Suez, where an entire nation seems to have descended into the streets. Fireworks were fired. Concert horns were launched in the middle of the flags in the national colors, black, white and red. People waved their children above their heads.
Some have their picture taken with smiling soldiers on their tanks.
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