La piazza non lo vuole ... kamel Ganzouri il neo eletto PM egiziano (spero che abbia le coronarie forti).. ecco cosa si scrive di lui
(sorriso affascinante direi!)
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Kamal Ganzouri (Arabic: كمال الجنزورى , IPA: [kæˈmæːl elɡænˈzuːɾiː]) (born January 12, 1933) is an Egyptian economist who has been Prime Minister-Designate of Egypt since November 2011. Previously he also served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 1999.[1] He came to power in 1996 succeeding Atef Sedki, and was in turn succeeded by Atef Ebeid in 1999. He was named "the Minister of the Poor" and "the Opposition Minister" because of his way of dealing with limited income people and the opposition. Before becoming Prime Minister, Ganzouri served as Minister of Planning and International Cooperation.[2] On 24 November 2011, Egypt's military rulers appointed him as Prime Minister.[3]
[edit] Early life and education
Kamal Ganzouri was born on 12 January 1933 in Garwan a town in Bagor city in Monofia. He had PhD from University of Michigan, United States and began taught in the Egyptian universities and training institutes in 1959.
[edit] Political career
[edit] Early career
He had served as a board member of the Sadat Academy for Administrative Sciences from 1962 to 1967 and became economic adviser to the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa in 1968. He was an adviser to the President Anwar Sadat. He was also a member of the National Specialized Councils of production, education and services. In 1974, he became undersecretary Of Planning Minister and kept this until 1975. He was appointed as Governor of the New Valley State in 1976 and then became Governor of the Bani Suef State in 1977 but resigned after just six months.
[edit] Minister of Planning
He was appointed as Director of The National Planning Institute in 1977 after resigned from Governor of Bani Suef State. After Hosni Mubarak assumed power as President of Egypt in 1981, Ganzouri became Minister of Planning after one year in 1982. In June 1984, he became Minister of International Cooperation. He was also Deputy Prime Minister from November 1986 to January 1996.
[edit] First Prime Ministership
On 2 January 1996, Hosni Mubarak appointed Ganzouri as a replacement of Atef Sedki. During of which, He and his Cabinet was known to be active on a level that didn't happen before in Egypt. Only in about 4 years or less they declared 387 laws, 57 of those made dramatic changes to Egypt. He started his Prime Ministry with 4 major projects that was supposed to help moving Egypt from the valley of the River Nile by developing and reclaiming new lands to live in away from the river nile valley. His speciality in Planning pushed him to make a plan of which how Egypt should develop into on 2017. He improved Egypt's relations to the International Bank through the International Monetary Fund and that was by completing the only program ever completed between Egypt and the International bank since 1961 after 13 other programs had gone to nowhere back then. The poverty ratio was reduced from 21% to 17%. Sadly all of this was used badly right after he was sided down. He was dismissed as Prime Minister on 5 October 1999.
[edit] After Prime Ministership
Some Regime Officials kept saying he didn't make any good to the country, so the 20 year plan vanished while the 4 projects was neglected by the new cabinet. Even though, he has a good reputation between the people of Egypt and that was because of the major changes he had accomplished. The Government made a sum of investigations through the time he was in the Prime Ministry and after about 4 years of his resignation the investigations didn't lead to anything to call him on it. In 2009, A high source within the National Democratic Party cleared that he was kept under house arrest, which was shocking and not cleared to normal Egyptians.
[edit] Support 25 January Revolution
He stayed away from Media for about 11 years of silence till the revolution of Jan 25 broke free. He then appeared for the first time right after Hosni Mubarak stepping down in a phone call on "Al Haya Al Youm" TV program saying that's a day of a new era in Egypt and that there is nowhere going back from this day.
He then reappeared in "Al Ashera Masa'a" TV program as the first dedicated interview. He started it with condolences and honoring the souls of the shohada' of Jan 25 revolution and talked about some of his roll in the past saying that he is ready to be judged for whatever project or plan he made that could have a bad influence on Egypt but before that judge who stopped it and made it away of Egypt's future.
He then made an interview with "Al Masre Al Youm" Journal in a series of three articles included answering more questions and giving more specific answers. He was asked if he would nominate him self for Presidency but his answer was that he's under the people's demand and he's not saying "Yes" or "No".
[edit] Possible presidential candidacy
Right after his appearance on TV, pages and groups on FaceBook started supporting him for Presidency. They grouped up and had an official page to the Media afterwords and expected to meet him and discuss his nomination. New Wafd Party sources is said to be thinking of backing him up as their own nominee but till now it's only unsure news, Nevertheless he already has a big sector of people who like him from the old days especially the limited income sector which are a big sector in Egypt's population. He didn't say anything official after the last TV appearance but he had some appearances on the press answering some corruption cases and it's investigations that was made under his Cabinet that he didn't approve on.
[edit] Second Prime Ministership
After Essam Sharaf was resigned as Prime Minister of Egypt on 21 November 2011, Supreme Military Council ask Ganzouri to form a new coalition government on 24 November. He is said that he will be form his "Solution Government" in early December 2011.