The meeting that was due to take place on either 23 or 24 December between the Real Estate Tax Collectors’ strike leaders and the Finance Minister was postponed to tomorrow Thursday. Moreover, despite pledging no witch-hunt against the strikers would take place, Ismail Abdel Rasoul, the corrupt head of the Real Estate Tax Collection Authorities whose impeachment tops now the demand of the tax collectors, has decreed a two-day cut in Kamal Abu Eita’s salary, while Talaat Hussein of the Tahta Tax Collection Directorate was ordered to be transferred from his job.
This is a clear breach of the agreement between the strikers and the Finance Ministry. The strike leaders still insist on the govt fulfilling the rest of the strikers’ demands, and are threatening to resume the downtown Cairo sit-in 9 January.