Mahmoud Mekki
| Mahmoud Mekki محمود مكي |
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| 17th Vice-President of Egypt | |
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In office 12 August 2012 – 22 December 2012 |
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| President | Mohamed Morsi |
| Preceded by | Omar Suleiman |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed ElBaradei (Interim) |
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| Born | 1954 (age 62–63) Alexandria |
| Political party | Independent |
| Religion | Islam |
Mahmoud Mekki (Arabic: محمود محمود أحمد مكي; born 1954) is an Egyptian politician who served as the 17th Vice President of Egypt from August 2012 to December 2012. He was appointed by President Mohamed Morsi following the 2011 revolution and the 2012 presidential election on 12 August 2012. He was Egypt's first vice president from a civilian background rather than a military one. He resigned from his post on 22 December 2012.
Mekki was born in Alexandria in 1954. After graduating from police college in Cairo he worked as a police officer in Central Security Forces. He then got a bachelor's degree in law and worked in general prosecution (Arabic: النيابة العامة). A few years later, Mekki became a judge. Working his way up the judicial ladder, he was eventually appointed vice-president of the Court of Cassation (Arabic: محكمه النقض)., which represents the final stage of criminal appeal in Egypt.
He is younger brother of Ahmed Mekki, the former minister of justice in the Qandil Cabinet.
Since the mid-1980s, Mekki, along with a large number of Egypt's judges, were engaged in advocating judicial independence, an idea which was brought to light at the time by Yehia Rifai, Chairman of the Egyptian Judges' Club at the time. Brothers Ahmed and Mahmoud Makky alongside Hossam Ghariani and others were demanding separation of the executive authority over courts and the transfer of judicial inspection to the Supreme judicial Council.
Makky headed the follow-up elections in the Judges' Club, and coordinator of the movement of the independent judges. In 2006, he led demonstrations for independence of the judiciary from the executive. Makky also demanded the amendment of article 76 of the Egyptian constitution to allow multiple presidential candidates to run for elections. In 1992, Makky headed a strike by judges to request the release of two judges who they claimed had been unfairly detained.
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