Mohamed Morsi
| Mohamed Morsi El Ayat محمد مرسى العياط |
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| 5th President of Egypt | |
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In office 30 June 2012 – 3 July 2013 |
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| Prime Minister |
Kamal Ganzouri Hesham Qandil |
| Vice President | Mahmoud Mekki |
| Preceded by | Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Interim) |
| Succeeded by |
Adly Mansour (Interim) |
| Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement | |
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In office 30 June 2012 – 30 August 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Mohamed Hussein Tantawi |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| Chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party | |
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In office 30 April 2011 – 24 June 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Saad El-Katatni |
| Member of the People's Assembly | |
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In office 1 December 2000 – 12 December 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Numan Gumaa |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Abaza |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 August 1951 El Adwah, Sharqia Governorate, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Political party | Freedom and Justice Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Muslim Brotherhood |
| Spouse(s) | Naglaa Mahmoud (m. 1979) |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater |
Cairo University University of Southern California |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Mohamed Morsi (Arabic: محمد محمد مرسى عيسى العياط, ALA-LC: Muḥammad Muḥammad Mursī ‘Īsá al-‘Ayyāṭ, IPA: [mæˈħæmmæd mæˈħæmmæd ˈmoɾsi ˈʕiːsæ (ʔe)l.ʕɑjˈjɑːtˤ]; born 8 August 1951) is an Egyptian politician who served as the fifthPresident of Egypt, from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed Morsi from office in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état after the June 2013 Egyptian protests. He was the first democratically elected head of state in the 5000 years of Egyptian history, in the election after the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
As president, Morsi issued a temporary constitutional declaration in late November that in effect granted him unlimited powers and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts. The new constitution that was then hastily drawn up by the Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly, presented to the president, and scheduled for a referendum, before the Supreme Constitutional Court could rule on the constitutionality of the assembly, was described by independent press agencies not aligned with the regime as an "Islamist coup". These issues, along with complaints of prosecutions of journalists and attacks on nonviolent demonstrators, led to the 2012 Egyptian protests. As part of a compromise, Morsi rescinded the decrees. In the referendum he held on the new constitution it was approved by approximately two thirds of voters.
On 30 June 2013, protests erupted across Egypt, which saw protesters calling for the president's resignation. In response to the events, Morsi was given a 48-hour ultimatum by the military to meet their demands and to resolve political differences, or else they would intervene by "implementing their own road map" for the country. He was unseated on 3 July by a military coup council consisting of Defense Minister Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, the Grand Imam of Al Azhar Ahmed el-Tayeb, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II. The military suspended the constitution and established a new administration now led by General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. The Muslim Brotherhood protested against the military coup, but the pro-Morsi protests were crushed in the August 2013 Rabaa massacre in which at least 817 civilians were massacred. Opposition leader Elbaradei quit in protest of the massacre.
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