 Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has authorised Ahmed Nazif, the prime minister, to induct seven new faces in the cabinet, Aljazeera's correspondent reports. Mubarak will swear in the new cabinet on Saturday, officials told Reuters after Nazif finalised a list of ministers which tilts the government further towards economic liberalisation.
| Economic, perhaps, but not political... |
"The presidential decree will be issued tomorrow, then the recommended ministers will give their oaths," cabinet spokesman Magdy Rady said on Friday. A cabinet official, who did not want to be named, gave Reuters a list of names and portfolios that was largely unchanged from the lists previously published by state-controlled newspapers. The lists showed Nazif had recruited more ministers from the private sector to augment his cabinet, which already contains a core of economic ministers who have spearheaded an economic reform programme for more than a year. |