Tuesday, February 15, 2011

In Egypt:, the army provides rapid referendum in prospect

Egyptian militaries appear to rely on a rapid political change in the North African country: to be available within ten days of the draft new constitution - and a little later, a referendum be held. Cairo - The Egyptian ruling military council has made a rapid sharing of power and a constitutional referendum in prospect.

In two months was a referendum on the proposed constitutional reform plan that the opposition belonging Google manager Wael Ghonim reported Monday on a meeting with the military. The generals wanted to present the final draft of a new constitution in ten days. The Military Council set but also a request: The strikes would have to be completed and returned the country to normaly.


In difficult times, endangered the safety of work stoppages and production, said the armed forces. Three days after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak was the capital Cairo has still not returned to normal conditions. Thus, only hours after the evacuation gathered again around 2000 demonstrators on Tahrir Square.

They blocked the traffic on the main square, where soldiers and military police had earlier moved the last protesters to trigger. The army initially had control of the Tahrir Square, the place of liberation, attained, has been in recent weeks to the symbol of the uprising. The traffic was flowing again.

Then marched hundreds of police officers there freely and expressed their solidarity with the protest movement. Most Egyptians view the police as the executive organ of the old power structure. The police had withdrawn from the streets in late January, after she had not been able to bring the situation under their control.

Then the army moved into the capital position and established a buffer between protesters and supporters of Mubarak. Police arrived on the outskirts of the rally is to wrangling between officials and civilians: Angry opposition supporters accused the police to hang their coat according to the wind.

Police said that they too had suffered under the system Mubarak. Only the upper echelons of the police force were corrupt. The leaders of the protest movement have announced that they would once again call for demonstrations should not be asking for a fundamental change met. For Friday, a victory march is planned to celebrate the revolution.

At the height of the protests, more than 250,000 protesters had gathered in Tahrir Square. Given the high number of people near the poverty line, the Egyptian Ministry of Finance announced the preparation of a recovery plan. It will create jobs, to prevent further social unrest. Finance Minister Samir Radwan said that it needed such a program, which was closely linked with the job situation in the country.

In Egypt, about 40 percent of people living on the edge of the poverty line. The unrest in the fall of Mubarak have cost the country according to the Central Bank equivalent to around 1.1 billion euros in revenues from tourism.

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