In a statement, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said that his ministry had "enough strength to guarantee the security of the people in and around the building of the National Assembly," and he called on citizens to be peaceful.
Last year, the Minister of Housing Mostafa Madbouly announced that all Egyptians would be connected to water and wastewater networks within eight years, provided his ministry receives enough money from the cabinet.
So people see little point in politics, reckoning that "all real decisions", as they tend to put it, are still made in the palace or the interior ministry.Nice enough when he's homeAs a result, the king has come under greater scrutiny by his people.
But merely creating a new ministry is not enough.
Electricity generation failed to keep up because the railway ministry had not built enough rail lines or purchased enough locomotives to haul the coal needed to run new power plants.
"The finance ministry does not have enough money to pay [SWF] so our payments have been delayed," Salah said.
Cutting legal aid, closing courts and laying off civil servants the sacrifices offered by the ministry last month were not enough.
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But Mr. Kibaki's side has refused to cede enough powerful ministries, like finance, foreign affairs or internal security, to placate the opposition.
However, many here say targeting a single ministry does not go far enough in ending the murky links between government and industry.
