Revolutionary parties and groups still camped out in Cario’s Tahrir Square issued a statement on Monday announcing that they would allow traffic into the square, but vowed to maintain their sit-in at the Cabinet building until revolutionary demands were unequivocally met.
The statement demanded that Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) release all political activists detained since the January revolution. It also demanded that the army secure the volatile square to prevent the return of street vendors.
The statement was signed by over 20 revolutionary parties and movements, including the April 6 youth movement (Democratic Front), the Maspero Youth movement, the Peaceful Front for Change and the Egyptian Current Party.
The statement went on to describe the ongoing Tahrir Square sit-in as “successful,” noting that it had achieved several victories. These, signatories asserted, included the holding of elections on schedule, last month’s resignation of the Essam Sharaf government, and promises by the SCAF that presidential elections would be held no later than June 2011.
According to the statement, the decision to reopen the square to traffic came following a request by large segments of the public out of concern not to harm local businesses in Downtown Cairo and to give a chance to political initiatives – such as that proposed by the Sheikh of Al-Azhar – to end current political tensions and achieve revolutionary goals.
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