Centre-left lawyer likely Egypt's new PM: presidency

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AFP - Egypt's interim president will likely appoint centre-left business lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin as prime minister within 24 hours, a presidential aide told AFP on Sunday.

The president, Adly Mansour, was also leaning towards picking Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president, after Islamists objected to an initial proposal to appoint ElBaradei as prime minister.

"The president is leaning towards appointing Bahaa Eldin and ElBaradei," Mansour's media advisor Ahmed al-Muslimani told AFP.

He said a final decision would be announced "tomorrow".

If confirmed, Mansour has gone for a technocrat without the baggage of ElBaradei, whose candidacy outraged Salafi Islamists in a loose coalition that backed president Mohamed Morsi's overthrow by the military on Wednesday.

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ElBaradei is likely to be viewed as a Western stooge.

[David__77]

1. So they kick out the party that won, and install a party with <10% support.

Now, let's be clear: there's not necessarily something wrong with that. It is completely anti-democratic, but perhaps worthy of support. If you support this, be clear that you are not supporting "democracy."