Tunisia and Egypt news

Tunisia’s Prime Minister has resigned, and I hope that gives an idea to Egypt’s equivalent person, who (like all the other pre-February 11 Cabinet Ministers) has no business staying in office.

In Egypt, meanwhile, Amr Moussa has said he intends to run for President. He was most recently the Secretary General of the Arab League, a position to which he was almost surely moved (he used to be Foreign Minister of Egypt) to eliminate a threat to the planned Mubarak family dynasty.

Moussa is (I believe) over 70, and compromised by his pro-Mubarak statements during the Revolution. He is clearly quite ambitious, and also a good speaker (I saw him give a lecture in Cairo last spring).

He does have some popularity on the street, primarily because of his tough rhetoric against Israel while Foreign Minister. But my gut human impression of him at the lecture was that he’s a fairly polished international diplomat who is too ambitious to have fiery belief in any particular ideology.