Egyptians throng streets in support of army-backed revolt

July 08, 2013 09:34

Hundreds of thousands rallied across Egypt in support of the popular military overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi as the interim government said it would announce a new prime minister within a day.

Staged two days after Islamist rallies exploded into bloodshed, the protests came as a senior official said a new prime minister would be announced today.

Interim president Adly Mansour was leaning towards appointing centre-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa Eldin as prime minister and Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei as vice president, the president's media advisor Ahmed al-Muslimani told AFP.

If confirmed, Mansour has tried to find 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.

The Salafis say ElBaradei, viewed as an ardent secularist and top opponent to Islamist Morsi, would have been a divisive premier.

But the head of the Salafi Al-Nour party also objected to Bahaa Eldin, because the business lawyer used to belong to ElBaradei's National Salvation Front coalition.

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