More updates from Cairo on the 55,000 strong Real Estate Tax officers strike:
After demonstrating in front Ministry of Finance yesterday, the tax officers moved to the Ministerial Cabinet building to continue their protest from 5:30pm to around 7:3opm. No one from the cabinet’s office went out to talk to the strikers. Promises are floating around however by some govt mediators that “problems will be solved in a month,” according to an activist source in Cairo. “The strikers reply was ‘this is good. But until the problems are solved we are continuing the strike.'”