President-elect Mohamed Morsi is to name six vice-presidents, including a woman and a Christian, as he seeks to fulfill a promise of inclusive government, his aides said Tuesday.

The Muslim Brotherhood has also reached some agreements with the army on the powers that Egypt’s first Islamist president will hold and the fate of the dissolved Islamist-led parliament.

Sameh Essawi, an aide to the president, said Tuesday that an advisory panel of six vice-presidents would include a woman, a Christian and others drawn from non-Brotherhood political groups.

The official Al-Ahram newspaper reported Tuesday that Mr. Morsi was considering Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or Hazem Beblawi, a former finance minister, as prime minister.

“Most of the cabinet will be technocrats,” an aide added.   »»» National Post (Canada)

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