(February 10, 2011 at 9:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Apparently the VP is regarded as a hand-picked crony. I can see why this just pissed people off.
Well it was one of the requests of the protest...
The problem is that people missed the point that this transfer of powers, the VP is now the "de facto" President, he only misses 3 powers that the vice president can't have because the constitution doesn't let him, he cannot amend the constitution, dismiss the government, or dissolve the parliament, only the president can do that.
Since one of the requests of the people is to amend the constitution to give them more freedoms, Mubarak can't step down now.
However he tried to do a appeal to nationalism and forgot to actually say what actually happened and now we have a group of people protesting to demand what he has already done.