Demonstrators on Cairo's central Tahrir Square were divided on Thursday over the resignation of Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, who quit his post earlier in the day.
A former transport minister, Essam Sharaf, was asked to form a new government.
Young people who had pushed for Shafiq's resignation showed no signs of joy over their unexpected victory.
"We will not go anywhere. Yes, he has left, but we still have plenty of demands to the leadership," Cairo student Ahmed al-Badhri, said, proceeding to reiterate some of the demands.
"End emergency rule. Create a government of technocrats. Dissolve the state security service," he said.
Another demand includes the immediate release of all political prisoners.
However, there was plenty of cheering over the news.
"Hurray to the power of the Egyptian people; bye-bye Shafiq," Mona Seif, one of the more high-profile protesters at Tahrir Square, said, according to afrol News.
Shafiq had been picked to head the cabinet by Hosni Mubarak before the Egyptian president stepped down on February 11, after 18 days of large-scale anti-government protests that broke out in Cairo and quickly spread throughout Egypt, leaving more than 350 people dead and some 5,500 injured.
CAIRO, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
