Reply #4: Egypt’s government abruptly resigns as deadly clashes rock Tahrir Square [View All]

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Source: Raw Story

Egypt’s cabinet said on Monday it had resigned as clashes raged inTahrir Square between police and protesters demanding democratic change in the country’s biggest crisis since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.

State television quoted a military source as saying the ruling military council had rejected the resignation, but Information Minister Osama Heikal told the official MENA news agency the matter had not yet been decided.

“The government of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has handed its resignation to the (ruling) Supreme Council of the Armed Forces,” cabinet spokesman Mohammed Hegazy said in a statement.

Sharaf’s resignation, if accepted, threatens to derail parliamentary elections scheduled for November 28 — the first polls since Mubarak was toppled in February.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/21/egypts-government-abruptly-resigns-as-deadly-clashes-rock-tahrir-square/