The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party has said it would start the proceedings for dismissing Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri’s cabinet on Wednesday by rejecting its parliamentary briefing.
“Nineteen parliamentary committees and all political parties agree with the FJP’s desire to dismiss the cabinet,” said FJP MP Abdel Aziz Khalaf. “It is the cabinet that is plotting all the crises [from which] we suffer.”
Islam Fares, a young member of the Brotherhood, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the young members were assigned to organize demonstrations against the cabinet in all universities on Tuesday, beginning with Al-Azhar University and ending in Tahrir Square.
Around 4,000 students protested inside the campus of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, calling for the Muslim Brotherhood to form a new government, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.
Emad Abdel Ghafour, president of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, said only a coalition government would be able to resolve the economic crisis.
“It is time the military council listened to the voice of reason and immediately dismissed the cabinet for its failure to manage the country during this difficult phase,” Abdel Ghafour said.
“It should also absolve itself of responsibility for overseeing the presidential elections and the preparation of the constitution, and leave it up to the political parties to handle,” he added.
FJP spokesperson Yousry Hammad said Ganzouri should meet with the Islamist parties in Parliament to consult with him on how to run the government if the military council decides not to remove him.
According to the Constitutional Declaration, only the SCAF has the right to appoint and dismiss the cabinet.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
