{"id":289609,"date":"2011-03-04T16:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/04\/egypt-new-prime-minister-gets-warm-reception-in-tahrir-square\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:02:15","slug":"egypt-new-prime-minister-gets-warm-reception-in-tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/04\/egypt-new-prime-minister-gets-warm-reception-in-tahrir-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: New Prime Minister Gets Warm Reception in Tahrir Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.4833836858\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 4 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Protests turned to celebrations in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square on Friday when thousands of Egyptian demonstrators greeted new Prime Minister Essam Sharaf with raucous cheers, a day after he was named for the post.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators welcomed Sharaf to his post chanting &#8220;Lift your head up high, you&#8217;re Egyptian&#8221;, as they did when president Hosni Mubarak stepped down on 11 February after mass protests against his 27-year rule.<\/p>\n<p>Previous premier Ahmed Shafiq stood down on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dossier: Revolution in Egypt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Mubarak&#8217;s resignation The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces pledged to oversee a transition to a free democratic system.<\/p>\n<p>But protesters had continued to gather in Tahrir Square after overthrowing Mubarak to demand that the caretaker government headed by Shafiq be purged of members of the old regime.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s protest, which was originally meant to press for change, turned into a massive celebration following news that Shafiq had been replaced by Sharaf.<\/p>\n<p>The new premier, who served briefly as a transport minister under Mubarak, had joined protesters in Tahrir Square during the uprising to demand political and economic change.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110304-new-egyptian-pm-gets-warm-reception-tahrir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103041038.html\" title=\"Egypt: New Prime Minister Gets Warm Reception in Tahrir Square\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Egypt: New Prime Minister Gets Warm Reception in Tahrir Square<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 4 March 2011 Protests turned to celebrations in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square on Friday when thousands of Egyptian demonstrators greeted new Prime Minister Essam Sharaf with raucous cheers, a day after he was named for the post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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