Those Chateaux in the South of France must be looking appealing to the fleeing rats.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=leadership-of-egypts-ruling-party-resigns-2011-02-05State TV says the top leadership body of Egypt's ruling party, including the president's son Gamal Mubarak and the party secretary-general Safwat el-Sharif, resigned Saturday in a new gesture apparently aimed at convincing anti-government protesters that the regime is serious about reform.
Protesters have shrugged off other concessions by the regime in the past 12 days of unprecedented street demonstrations, saying they will settle for nothing less than the immediate ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ruler for nearly 30 years.
State TV said the ruling party's six-member Steering Committee of the General Secretariat stepped down and was replaced. The council was the party's highest decision-making body, and el-Sharif and other outgoing members were some of the most powerful - and to many Egyptians, unpopular - political figures in the regime.
The announcement was greeted with scorn by some of the tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Wael Khalil, a 45-year-old activist, said it would "reinforce their (protersers') resolve and increase their confidence because it shows that they are winning, and the regime is retreating inch by inch."
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