This is an analysis of who is who in Egypt's new goverment, including Prime Minister Ahmed Nazeef, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali and Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieddin.
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Egyptians are being offered the most democratic parliamentary elections since President Anwar Sadat toyed with multiparty politics in the mid-1970s.
Cairo is allowing a shipping company reportedly owned by the Chinese military to use ports on the Suez Canal. The 7 May agreement was reached after years of negotiation, according to Egypt's highly official Middle East News Agency.
The new government is riding a nationalist wave but still needs
to win political credibility
The ruling party barons remain unchanged: some have been around
since President Gamal Abdel Nasser's day. The new faces
are mainly technocratic and junior: gradualist and market-oriented
reform is the new ideology. The government comprises:
Egypt has more success with trade than with foreign policy
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