<p>Leading liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named as Egypt's new prime minister to head a caretaker government, his allies and the anti-Morsi Tamarod movement said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mena state news agency says ElBaradei met interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour, three days after the army removed Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi amid growing nationwide unrest.<br /><br />The move has in turn triggered mass unrest by supporters of Morsi. 71-year-old ElBaradei is a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog. He and other party leaders attended a meeting called by Mansour today.<br /><br />ElBaradei leads an alliance of liberal and left-wing parties, the National Salvation Front.<br /><br />A spokesman for the front told AP news agency that Mansour would swear him in as prime minister this evening, the BBC reported.<br /><br />In an interview on Thursday, ElBaradei defended the army's intervention, saying: "We were between a rock and a hard place."<br /><br />"It is a painful measure, nobody wanted that," he said. "But Mr Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself a few months ago as a pharaoh and then we got into a fist fight, and not a democratic process."<br /><br />More than 30 people died and hundreds were wounded in yesterday's protests by Islamist supporters of the deposed president.<br /><br />Huge crowds have demonstrated again in Cairo today to demand his reinstatement. Meanwhile opponents of Morsi have called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he belongs, tomorrow.<br /><br />Morsi is in detention, along with some senior Brotherhood figures.</p>
<p>Leading liberal opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has been named as Egypt's new prime minister to head a caretaker government, his allies and the anti-Morsi Tamarod movement said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Mena state news agency says ElBaradei met interim President Adly Mahmud Mansour, three days after the army removed Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi amid growing nationwide unrest.<br /><br />The move has in turn triggered mass unrest by supporters of Morsi. 71-year-old ElBaradei is a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog. He and other party leaders attended a meeting called by Mansour today.<br /><br />ElBaradei leads an alliance of liberal and left-wing parties, the National Salvation Front.<br /><br />A spokesman for the front told AP news agency that Mansour would swear him in as prime minister this evening, the BBC reported.<br /><br />In an interview on Thursday, ElBaradei defended the army's intervention, saying: "We were between a rock and a hard place."<br /><br />"It is a painful measure, nobody wanted that," he said. "But Mr Morsi unfortunately undermined his own legitimacy by declaring himself a few months ago as a pharaoh and then we got into a fist fight, and not a democratic process."<br /><br />More than 30 people died and hundreds were wounded in yesterday's protests by Islamist supporters of the deposed president.<br /><br />Huge crowds have demonstrated again in Cairo today to demand his reinstatement. Meanwhile opponents of Morsi have called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood, to which he belongs, tomorrow.<br /><br />Morsi is in detention, along with some senior Brotherhood figures.</p>