Egypt MB calls on govt. to resign

“The government has failed by all means to manage the country as it also failed to manage any crisis, as we also see that the government’s statements addressed to the parliament were so weak and flat,” said Ahmed Sobeih, a media counselor with the Freedom and Justice Party.

Representatives of the Brotherhood political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, which holds around 47 percent of the parliament seats, say they will mount pressure on the country’s ruling junta to force the incumbent premier Kamal Ganzouri’s cabinet to resign or demand the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) to force it to step down if the government refuses to do so voluntarily.

“We will keep piling up pressure on the government until the government steps down. They have done nothing since they took responsibility and the situation of the country is worsening day after day,” Sobeih maintained.

According to Egypt’s constitutional declaration, issued last March, the parliament possesses the right to supervise the cabinet’s performance and to withdraw confidence if necessary.

The Freedom and Justice Party has asserted that it considers Ganzouri’s cabinet to be nothing more than a secretariat, whilst the country desperately needs a government with complete authorities.

The party issued a statement on Saturday, accusing SCAF of supporting what it called a dysfunctional cabinet. The statement said the government’s performance had been the ‘biggest failure’, listing unrest, interference in the judiciary, and stalling of reforms.

The statement also accused the junta of stalling the popular revolution that ousted former longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, last year.

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