The Freedom and Justice Party has refused the proposed reshuffling of Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri’s cabinet, one of the party's MPs said on Wednesday.
Shura Council member Ahmed Abdel Rahman said the FJP refuses the continuation of the government as its performance was sub-standard and that it would withdraw confidence from it next week.
“The party would not be granting its confidence to the government, and will refuse its statement,” Abdel Rahman told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Wednesday. “There are 29 requests for interrogation against the government from all parliamentary parties.”
Yousry Hammad, a spokesperson for the Salafi Nour Party said the party’s High Committee met on Tuesday and decided to open dialogue with all parties in preparation for withdrawing confidence from the Ganzouri cabinet. He said the party changed its previous decision due to new recent events.
Hammad told Al-Masry Al-Youm that “communications between the Nour Party and all political forces confirmed that most of these forces agree on the withdrawal of confidence.”
He said that the party refuses reshuffling the current cabinet and demands that it be changed completely “as its performance is questionable.”
Hammad added that “overwhelming evidence shows that the Ganzouri cabinet is managed in the same way as the National Democratic Party.”
Meanwhile, Ahmed Abul Nazar, chairman of the Nahdet Masr Party and member of the coalition of Sufi order parties, said the party successfully convinced the coalition and Sufi orders to support the Ganzouri cabinet against the FJP’s attempts by establishing a fund to meet workers’ demands and to help manage crises. He said it would be funded by businessmen who would receive tax deductions and other benefits.
He went on to say that the party sent this proposal on Wednesday to Ganzouri and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
