February 8, 2011

EGYPT: MUBARAK FORMS REFORM COMMITTEES


President Hosni Mubarak set up a committee Tuesday to recommend constitutional amendment to relax presidential eligibility rules and impose term limits seeking to meet longtime popular demands as a standoff with protester seeking his ouster enters its third week.


Mubarak's decrees were announced on state television by Vice President Omar Suleiman, who also said that Mubarak will set awake a separate committee to monitor the implementation of all projected reforms. The two committees will start working right away, he said.The government has promised more than a few concessions since the uprising began on Jan. 25 but has refused the protesters' main command that Mubarak step down immediately instead of staying on all the way through September elections.


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