Another Historical Friday

And we had another historical Friday when we thought that Historical Fridays are over after the historical Friday of step downing
In a scene we have not seen in decades , an Egyptian prime minister was being carried over the shoulders in a protest of love and hope . I think the last time Egypt have seen similar scene was before the coup of 1952. I am not comparing Essam Sharaf with Mustafa El-Nahas of course despite Dr. Sharaf has a great opportunity to be remembered in the Egyptian history like Mustafa Pasha El-Nahas if he manages to lead us successfully insh Allah in this very critical time of our history.

New hope "Reuters"

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Essam Sharaf went earlier today to Al Tahrir square , already his new office at the cabinet is couple of blocks away. He prayed at his office as far as I know as he was so busy “in fact he is extremely busy in forming his new cabinet” . After the prayer he went to Tahrir square , it was like swimming in a pool of human beings surrounded by military police. Hundreds of thousands if not one million Egyptian were already there. The new PM reached to podium of the internal radio station of the square carried on shoulders.“while watching him on TV I feared that the man would suffer a heart attack”

Sharaf gave the first real public speech for a prime minister for true non NDPian or any single party members Egyptians. He addressed not only the people at Tahrir but millions of Egyptians with few words on the podium that was interpreted foolishly by over enthusiastic Hussein Abdel Ghany and MB’s Beltagy who acted like 16 years old teenagers who have joined a political protest for the first time !! I do not know what is feeling of any NDPian watched that moment but I know the NDP gang and orphans do not like it.
You can see the video of Dr. Essam Sharaf’s speech after the break.

The technocrat PM proved to understand how to talk to the people wining their hearts and their minds with his small speech where he announced his full respect to the martyrs and how he promised the Egyptian people to return back himself to the square if he fails in the mission. Most importantly the PM said that his legitimacy comes from the Al Tahrir and the revolution.
The PM was carried again on shoulders after leaving the podium. This gives a lot of hope to millions of Egyptians to see a PM that acts like a normal man without fearing huge crowd like that and without bodyguards.
From their side several protesting groups at Tahrir decided to give Sharaf a chance two weeks , if he fails , they will return back to the square. Of course they will not be alone as Dr. Sharaf promised to go there as well.
Here are couple of photos from Tahrir square today from international agencies.

Pushing through the crowed "reuters"

Army and people one hand "Reuters"

Little cute Egyptian baby "Reuters"

Little Azhar student celebrates Tahrir way "Reuters"

Beltagy , Sharaf and Abdel Aziz" AP"

A kiss from a citizen "AP"

Carried over shoulders 

Here is a great profile about our new prime minister Dr. Essam Sharaf from Al Ahram online. There are leaks that Dr. Sharaf has got a card blanche from the AFC to get rid from all Mubarak’s ministers except field marshal Tantawy of course. There are promising names like Zakaria Abdel Aziz and Hisham El-Bastawsy. Judge Zakaria was already besides Sharaf at podium , it was more than great to see him again.

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