CAIRO: Egypt's ruling military council has accepted the resignation of the entire cabinet tendered the day before, after violent clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square between police and protesters, a cabinet source said.
Meanwhile, The head of the ruling military council said on Tuesday, "The army would quit power immediately if the people voted for it in a referendum and a presidential election will be held by mid-2012."
In a speech announcing concessions to protesters who massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand the army withdraw from power, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said the council accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's cabinet.
"The armed forces, represented by their Supreme Council, do not aspire to govern and put the supreme interest of the country above all considerations," Tantawi said in the televised address.
He said the army was "completely ready to hand over responsibility immediately, and to return to its original mission to protect the nation if the nation wants that, via a popular referendum, if need be.
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