Cairo:
Egypt's new Cabinet is being sworn in, days after the country's interim president chose a new prime minister.
State television aired the ministers being sworn in live from the presidential palace Saturday.
The new Cabinet keeps Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as the country's defense minister. El-Sissi is widely expected to be running for president.
The country's Interior Minister, in charge of police, also remains the same.
The new Cabinet is led by former Housing Minister Ibrahim Mehlib, who held a senior position in the now dissolved party of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The surprise resignation of the Cabinet earlier this week, including then-Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, comes a few months before the presidential vote. Mehlib will keep 20 ministers from el-Beblawi's government and appointed 11 new ones, mostly technocrats.
State television aired the ministers being sworn in live from the presidential palace Saturday.
The new Cabinet keeps Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as the country's defense minister. El-Sissi is widely expected to be running for president.
The country's Interior Minister, in charge of police, also remains the same.
The new Cabinet is led by former Housing Minister Ibrahim Mehlib, who held a senior position in the now dissolved party of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
The surprise resignation of the Cabinet earlier this week, including then-Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, comes a few months before the presidential vote. Mehlib will keep 20 ministers from el-Beblawi's government and appointed 11 new ones, mostly technocrats.
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