Egyptian President-elect Mohammad Mursi started mulling a new cabinet, as he met with the country military rulers who took power following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

Egyptian President-elect Mohammad Mursi started mulling a new cabinet, as he met with the country military rulers who took power following the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt's first civilian president, and its first elected leader since an uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak early last year, went straight to work after he was declared the election winner on Sunday, a senior aide said.
Mursi was conducting talks to appoint an "independent national figure" as his premier, the aide said.

"Most of the cabinet will be technocrats," he added, requesting anonymity because the presidency had not yet settled on its official spokesman.

The winning Muslim Brotherhood candidate, who went on the presidential race against former Mubarak premier Ahmad Shafiq, has also started moving into the presidential palace and has already begun talks to appoint his new cabinet, days before the military is scheduled to transfer power, a campaign spokeswoman said.

"He has already started, with a list of names he is considering. He says he will declare the cabinet soon," Nermine Mohammed Hassan, said.

MURSI MEETS TANTAWI
On Monday, Mursi held talks with the country’s military rulers as he attempts to coax a mistrustful army into relaxing its grip on power.

State television showed images of Morsi sitting at a desk in the presidential palace, and others of the 60 year old sitting next to military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi during a visit to the military's headquarters.

The military-appointed cabinet offered its resignation on Monday, state media reported, adding that it would assume caretaker responsibilities until Morsi forms a new cabinet.