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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Sat Jul 6 13:53:38 2013, in response to Egypt revolts, posted by AlM on Mon Jul 1 11:15:34 2013.
fiogf49gjkf0d Back in 2011, he threatened to attack Israel if he became PM. Guess that's a sign of being "liberal", ain't it. (And didn't the liberal media claim that Morsi was no longer in the Muslim Brotherhood back before the elections?)
BBC News
6 July 2013 | Last updated at 13:34 ETEl-Baradei to become Egyptian PMLeading liberal Egyptian politician Mohamed El-Baradei is to be named prime minister of a new caretaker government, his supporters say.
Mena state news agency says he met interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour, three days after the army removed Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi amid growing nationwide unrest.
The move has in turn triggered mass unrest by supporters of Mr. Morsi.
Mr. El-Baradei is a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog.
He and other party leaders attended a meeting called by Mr. Mansour on Saturday.
Mr. El-Baradei leads an alliance of liberal and left-wing parties, the National Salvation Front.
A spokesman for the front told AP news agency that Mr. Mansour would swear him in as prime minister on Saturday evening.
In a BBC interview on Thursday, Mr. El-Baradei defended the army's intervention, saying: "We were between a rock and a hard place."
"It is a painful measure; nobody wanted that," he said. "But Mr. Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself a few months ago as a pharaoh and then we got into a fist fight, and not a democratic process."
More than 30 people died and hundreds were wounded in Friday's protests by Islamist supporters of the deposed president.
Huge crowds have demonstrated again in Cairo on Saturday to demand his reinstatement.
Meanwhile, opponents of Mr. Morsi have called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he belongs, on Sunday. He is in detention along with some senior Brotherhood figures.
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