Who is the Egypt’s new Prime Minister?

25/11/11 14:54 CET

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Kamal Ganzouri,78, has previously been the Egyptian prime minister from 1996 to 1999, under deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

As a result of this, there are those who criticise his appointment saying he is ‘part of the old regime’, but for many Egyptians he is a popular choice.

The last time he held the position, he was known as the “minister of the poor” because he was seen as representing the less well-off.

For more than a decade Ganzouri stayed away from the media, and distanced himself from the Mubarak

administration.

Until a re-appearance in January, the day after the former president stepped down, when he called in to a national TV station declaring a new era had arrived in Egypt, and there was no way of going back.

More about: Egypt, General Marshal Tantawi, Hosni Mubarak, Kamal Ganzouri, Politics, Protests in Egypt

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