Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved on Thursday the new governors' reshuffle proposed by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, the presidential spokesman announced.
Sisi met with Mehleb at the presidential palace on Thursday to discuss the reshuffle, said Presidential Spokesman Alaa Youssef in a statement.
The proposed reshuffle will involve 17 new governors, Youssef said. They are scheduled to be sworn in on Saturday.
The statement did not specify which governors will be replaced.
Egypt's cabinet proposed last year a plan for border demarcation. The plan is set to introduce big changes to Egypt's map. The demarcation would increase the size of some governorates at the expense of others.
The demarcation plan involves adding three new governorates to Egypt's map: one in central Sinai, one in the North Coast region of al-Alameen and a third combining the Western Sahara oases of Farafra and Bahariya.
Ahmed Hisham, the director of the National Council for Planning the State Lands' Usage, told Aswat Masriya that the cabinet has postponed the demarcation plan until "societal dialogue" is held over it.
