埃及臨時政府於電視講話中宣佈內閣辭職
Egypt’s interim government has resigned, in an unexpected move seen as potentially paving the way for a presidential bid by Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the defence minister.
埃及臨時政府已經辭職，此舉出乎人們的意料。有人認爲此舉可能是爲國防部長阿卜杜勒•法塔赫•塞西元帥(Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi)參加總統選舉鋪平道路。Hazem al-Biblawi, the Egyptian prime minister, announced his cabinet’s resignation in a televised statement in which he offered no reasons for the decision.
埃及總理哈齊姆•貝卜拉維(Hazem al-Biblawi，見右圖)在一個電視講話中宣佈了內閣的辭職，他在講話中未提到作出這一決定的任何理由。“[The government] made every effort to get Egypt out of the narrow tunnel in terms of security, economic pressures and political confusion,” he said.
他說：“（埃及臨時政府）盡了全力令埃及擺脫安全和經濟壓力及政治混亂所造成的困境。”
Mr Biblawi, an economist, was installed as prime minister in the wake of the popularly backed coup in July that ousted Mohamed Morsi, the elected president.
在去年7月得到埃及民意支持的政變之後，經濟學家出身的貝卜拉維被任命爲埃及總理。那次政變罷免了埃及民選總統穆罕默德•穆爾西(Mohamed Morsi)。His government included technocrats and a smattering of figures from secular parties opposed to Mr Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood group. He said the cabinet would remain in place until a new one had been announced.
貝卜拉維政府包括了技術官僚以及來自各世俗政黨的人物，這些政黨反對穆爾西的穆斯林兄弟會(Muslim Brotherhood)。他說，內閣將繼續按部就班工作，直到新一屆內閣宣佈成立。A key question is whether Field Marshall Sisi, who ousted Mr Morsi and who is seen as the de facto ruler of the country, will retain his position in the new cabinet.
關鍵問題在於，曾罷免穆爾西並被視爲埃及實際統治者的賽西元帥是否會在新一屆內閣中保留其職位。If he is replaced, it will be a sign that an announcement that he will run for president could be imminent.
如果他在新一屆內閣中的職位被人替換，那說明他很快就將宣佈競選總統。A council of senior military commanders last month publicly authorised the defence chief to seek the top job, which he is widely expected to win.
就在上個月，一個由高級軍事指揮官組成的委員會公開授權這位防務長官競選總統，人們廣泛預期賽西將贏得總統選舉。Human rights activists will be looking to see if Mohamed Ibrahim, the interior minister who has been leading a crackdown on Islamist and other dissenters will be moved. Many complain that police brutality has returned to levels seen before the 2011 uprising that ended the three-decade rule of Hosni Mubarak.
人權活動人士將會關注內政部長穆罕默德•易卜拉欣將軍(Mohamed Ibrahim)是否會被撤換，這位內政部長一直在領導對伊斯蘭主義分子和其他異見人士的鎮壓活動。許多人抱怨埃及警察暴力已恢復到2011年民變之前的水平。那場民變結束了胡斯尼•穆巴拉克(Hosni Mubarak)對埃及長達30年的統治。Mr Biblawi said that with the adoption of a new constitution last month, Egypt had “completed an important portion of its march towards the construction of an open democratic society”.
貝卜拉維表示，上個月埃及通過了新的憲法，這表明埃及“在走向構建開放民主社會的進程中完成了重要一步”。
