The deputy prime minister, Yehia el-Gamal, assured investors that “Egypt will not change its economic direction, will maintain the free market and won’t deviate from the market mechanisms.”

Essam Sharaf’s cabinet has also spoken out several times before against the demand to renationalize privatized factories saying that will scare away investors.

In other words, the same neoliberal policies which contributed directly to the outbreak of this uprising will stay in place.