Later the government of Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab has submitted its resignation to the country’s president.
The statement, however, did not elaborate on the reasons behind the resignation.
Mahlab has reportedly been asked to serve as the country’s caretaker premier until the formation of new government.
Egyptian Minister of Energy Sharif Ismail
Sisi has assigned Sherif Ismail, the oil minister in Mahlab’s cabinet, to name a government within a week, PRESS TV reports.
Egypt’s former Agriculture Minister Salah El Din Mahmoud Helal
The resignation came days after Egypt’s Agriculture Minister Salah El Din Mahmoud Helal stepped down before being arrested on corruption charges.
This is while pubic employees are planning to launch massive demonstrations to protest against a controversial civil service law, which has recently been approved by Sisi.
Egypt’s interior minister has vowed to quash the upcoming protests.
"Sisi has assigned Sherif Ismail, the oil minister in Mahlab’s cabinet, to name a government within a week"
Egypt has been gripped by deadly unrest since the ouster of the country’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in a July 2013 military coup orchestrated by Sisi, who was then the head of the armed forces.
Following the coup, thousands of Morsi’s supporters have been jailed, with many of them, including Morsi himself, receiving the death penalties in mass trials.