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Egypt’s Re-Revolution: People Want Marshal Down
After four days of violent clashes, Egyptian Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi appeared to the scene announcing that the ruling military council accepts the government's resignation and that presidential elections would be held by July 2012.
However, Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians continued to occupy Cairo's Tahrir Square viewing the concession as not enough and demanding that the field marshal steps down.
During the night, clashes between police and protesters in Cairo as ambulances picked up injured people.
According to Egypt's ministry of health, at least 30 people have been killed since Saturday and hundreds injured.
Field Marshal Tantawi said parliamentary elections scheduled to begin on 28 November would take place as planned.
"The armed forces, represented by their Supreme Council, do not aspire to govern, and put the supreme interest of the country above all considerations," he said.
"They are fully prepared to immediately hand over power and to return to their original duty in protecting the homeland if that is what the people want, through a popular referendum if necessary."
He also said he had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharif's cabinet - appointed by the military - and that a national salvation government would take its place.
His announcement followed a day of crisis talks between the military and political leaders.
After he spoke, protesters in Tahrir Square chanted: "We are not leaving, he (Tantawi) leaves."
Protesters at Tahrir Square indicated they would want to hear nothing less than an announcement of an end to the rule of SCAF, which took over when Mubarak was toppled in February.
Clashes also erupted in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the canal city of Suez and the central city of Qena, the northern city Port Said and Assiut and Aswan in the south, as while as the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org
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