The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Nour party plan to issue a joint decision concerning the withdrawal of confidence from Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri’s government.
The two parties, which hold roughly two thirds of the seats in Parliament, are in negotiations to decide on their joint statement.
Sources said that in a meeting on Friday between the Parliament’s two main blocs, both sides agreed to reject the current cabinet and the statements Ganzouri delivered to Parliament last month.
Chairman Mohamed Morsy also stressed the need to withdraw confidence from the cabinet during a Lawyers' Club meeting in Maadi, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.
"The party will reject the cabinet's statement, and will start [measures to withdraw confidence] Wednesday once the committee, headed by deputy speaker Ashraf Thabet, finishes the reply on the cabinet's statement," said FJP MP Saber Abdel Sadeq.
The first step in withdrawing support from the government will be rejecting Ganzouri’s statements, FJP MP Abdel Aziz Khalaf said. Then, he said, according to parliamentary laws, the ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces must task the largest party in the parliament with forming a new cabinet.
Nour Party representatives have also said that Ganzouri's cabinet may no longer have their backing.
Nour Party legal adviser Talaat Marzouk said his party would reject the statements of the cabinet, but still has not decided whether it will cast a vote of no confidence.
The cabinet's performance in the recent period caused the party to re-think their support, spokesperson for Nour Party Yousry Hamad said. Many party members, he said, disagreed with the handling of the diesel and fuel crisis and the cabinet's decision to borrow from abroad wthout addressing internal financial corruption in the ministries.
Hamad said some government officials are still collecting inflated and unearned salaries that are a burden on the budget.
Hamad said his party would try to put in place accounting standards for the cabinet before casting a vote of no confidence.
If the cabinet proves negligent, he said the Nour party will immediately withdraw confidence from it and form a coalition cabinet with other political forces.
