Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri will deliver his first parliamentary speech Tuesday to the newly elected the People’s Assembly, which reconvenes after a short break taken during elections for the upper house, the Shura Council.
The speech will be the first interpellation of an Egyptian prime minister by a fairly elected Parliament after 25 January revolution, which ousted President Hosni Mubarak last year.
Ganzouri’s statement will describe in detail measures taken by the Egyptian government for the welfare of families of protesters killed in the popular uprising, as well as those injured. The session will be held amid rising criticism of the government’s handling of the issue.
A large number of political and activist groups have announced plans to march to the Parliament building under the slogan “Tuesday of Determination.”
The demonstrators will reiterate demands to authorize the People's Assembly speaker to supervise presidential elections instead of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. They will also voice their rejection of plans to draft the country’s new constitution with the SCAF in power.
Since Wednesday, which marked the revolution’s first anniversary, protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and other governorates have been pressing the SCAF to hasten its transfer of power to a civilian government before drafting the constitution or holding presidential elections.
One march is planned to start at the Maspero state TV building at 4 pm, while the other is scheduled to begin at the same time from the Saad Zaghloul mausoleum in downtown Cairo. Another anti-SCAF protest is planned in Toukh, Qalyubiya.
Other student unions have announced marches from the universities of Cairo, Helwan, Ain Shams, Monufiya, Minya, Zagazig, Alexandria and Mansoura to support the same demands.
