adminofficials were also ordered yesterday to be detained, including Badie’s deputy Mahmoud Ezzat and party leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed el-Beltagy.
One day earlier, Egypt’s prosecutor-general began investigating 650 people suspected of involvement in Monday’s violence, although it did not say who exactly was under investigation.
Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, said nine others are included in the arrest warrant.
The Muslim Brotherhood has called for an “uprising” to restore Morsi after Monday’s shootings.
Thousands of Brotherhood followers have been maintaining a vigil near a mosque in north-east Cairo demanding the reinstatement of President Mohamed Morsi, deposed last week in a coup.
Rageh said that the leaders who have arrest warrants against them are currently present at the vigil at Rabaa Adaweya mosque in north-east Cairo and that it will be difficult for the police to enter the large crowd of pro-Morsi supporters.
The Muslim Brotherhood yesterday also rejected an offer to join Egypt’s transitional cabinet, as new interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi announced he would start work on forming an interim government once he meets liberal leaders.
Beblawi told Reuters news agency yesterday that he accepted that it would be difficult to win the unanimous support of Egyptians for his new government.
“Of course we respect the public opinion and we try to comply with the expectation of the people, but there is always a time of choice, there is more than one alternative, you cannot satisfy all of the people,” he said.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s main liberal coalition, the National Salvation Front, withdrew its earlier statement rejecting the transition plan for interim rule and issued a statement containing milder criticism, Reuters said.
Beblawi, a liberal economist and a former finance minister, was named the new prime minister on Tuesday.
Liberal opposition chief and Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei was also named vice-president and head of foreign relations.
The appointments were followed by an announcement that ministerial posts in the new government would be offered to members of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, and to the Al-Nour Party.
Our correspondent, Rawya Rageh, said that some of the opposition groups like Tamarrod said that they were not consulted, and that the plan for the interim government was a rushed political process done secretly.
Also yesterday, the country’s new prosecutor-general, Hisham Barakat, was sworn in by Mansour.
The administration decisions come almost a week after the military overthrew Morsi and chose chief justice Adly Mansour to head the Arab world’s most populous country.
ElBaradei was initially tipped to lead the cabinet but his nomination was rejected by the Nour Party.
The head of the party added that it was still studying ElBaradei’s appointment as vice-president. —Al Jazeera.
Peter Tanyanyiwa
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