Egypt's military rulers agree to bring forward presidential elections, form a new interim government - Polidicks

• Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has said it will meet protesters' demands to bring forward presidential elections to June 2012, and to form a new "national salvation government." • However, one key demand of the protesters - the resignation of the head of the Supreme Council, has still not been met, and many protesters plan to remain camped in Tahrir Square. • Egypt's cabinet submitted their resignation yesterday, in the face of massive protests demanding a quicker transition to democracy. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15843425[/url] [quote=BBC News][b]Egypt's military rulers have agreed to form a "national salvation government" and speed up the process towards presidential elections, reports say.[/b] The move follows days of often violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Delegates at a crisis meeting between political groups and the military said parliamentary elections next week would go ahead as scheduled. They said presidential elections would take place before the end of June next year - a key demand of protesters. Next week's elections are due to set in train a process of transition to democracy following the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak in February. But many Egyptians fear the military intends to hold on to power, whatever the outcome of the polls. The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Cairo says the readiness to bring forward presidential elections appears to be a major concession from the military. Selim al-Awwa, a participant in the talks, told Mena news agency the new government "would implement the goals of the revolution". On Monday, the military-appointed civilian cabinet led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf tendered its resignation after three days of violent demonstrations. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), is expected to make a statement later, Egyptian television reports. "Presidential elections [are] to be held by the end of June and the final preparations for handing over power by July 1," Emad Abdel Ghafour, leader of the ultra-conservative Nour (Light) party, told Reuters. "We agreed to accept the resignation of Essam Sharaf's government and to establish a national salvation government," he added. Tens of thousands of people packed Tahrir Square on Tuesday evening following days of protests against the country's military rulers. Witnesses said many appeared to reject the military's concessions, chanting: "We are not leaving, he (Tantawi) leaves."[/quote]

And thus it goes with ousting violent dictators and dealing with the former's corrupt military. From one boiling kettle into the next one.

$10 that they will close the parliament an hour after it opens.

I'm personally not very worried. The Egyptian military clearly aren't crazy enough to gun down protesters Syria-style, and the protesters clearly have the resolve to stay on the streets until they get what they demand, as even after a huge police raid on Tahrir Square they just showed up again the next day. Unless they want to go Syrian, eventually the army will have to give up

[QUOTE=smurfy;33389357]I'm personally not very worried. The Egyptian military clearly aren't crazy enough to gun down protesters Syria-style, and the protesters clearly have the resolve to stay on the streets until they get what they demand, as even after a huge police raid on Tahrir Square they just showed up again the next day. Unless they want to go Syrian (which would seem a very strange thing to do considering how unsuccessful that approach has proven), eventually the army will have to give up[/QUOTE] In Syria they will bomb the homes and hospitals of the competition. At least Egypt government got some morals.