20 New Governors To Be Sworn In Tuesday: Egypt’s Presidential Aide

Twenty new governors will be sworn in on Tuesday in a new local-government reshuffle, Presidential media advisor Ahmed El-Muslimani said on Monday.

Egypt’s Interim President Adly Mansour is expected to replace 20 ouf of 27 governors, and to also name 11 deputy-governors.

In mid-June, days before he was ousted, then-president Mohamed Morsi appointed 17 governors, 11 of them supporters of the Brotherhood, to head local governments. These appointments triggered controversy nationwide as critics of Morsi charged that the move came as part of his attempt to ‘brotherhoodise’ the state apparatus.

Details on the political affiliations of the new governors are still to be announced.

Source : Ahram