FRANCE 24 NEWS-World:Egypt's ElBaradei named interim PM

Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei will be sworn in as interim prime minister later on Saturday, an opposition source said. ElBaradei, a former UN executive, led the opposition to Hosni Mubarak, toppled in 2011, and to Mohamed Morsi, ousted on Wednesday.

An opposition spokesman says pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named interim prime minister.


Khaled Dawoud of the National Salvation Front, the main opposition grouping, told The Associated Press that interim President Adly Mansour will swear in ElBaradei on Saturday evening.

A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party has already rejected ElBaradei’s appointment.

ElBaradei has led the opposition to autocrat Hosni Mubarak, toppled by a popular uprising in 2011, and later to the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, forced out by the military earlier this week in a move that has led to a new round of chaos in Egypt.

ElBaradei is a Nobel peace Laureate and a former director of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

(FRANCE 24 with wires)

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