Egypt Names Mubarak Adviser New PM

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 5:02PM EDT / Published Feb. 25, 2014 1:50PM EST

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This isn’t abrupt and sketchy at all. Egypt’s president announced today that a new prime minister had been selected, one day after Hazem el-Beblawi stepped down for undisclosed reasons. Ibrahim Mehlib, who served in the ruling party of former President Hosni Mubarak and headed a state-owned construction company, will be the new prime minister. The recent shakeups in Cairo all seem to suggest that Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the head of the military, will soon be making a presidential run.

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Egypt Names Mubarak Adviser New PM

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