Mohamed Morsi (Arabic: محمد محمد مرسى عيسى العياط, ( Muḥammad Muḥammad Mursī ‘Īsá al-‘Ayyāṭ),; born 8 August 1951, is an Egyptian politician who served as the fifth President of Egypt, from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013, when he was removed by army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. He was the first democratically elected head of state in Egyptian history.
Mohamed Morsi was educated in Egyptian public schools and
universities; he was later granted a scholarship from the Egyptian government
to prepare for a Ph.D. degree in the United States. Morsi was a Member
of Parliament in the People's Assembly of Egypt from 2000 to 2005, and a
leading member in the Muslim Brotherhood. He became Chairman of the Freedom and
Justice Party (FJP) when it was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake
of the 2011 Egyptian revolution . He stood as the FJP's candidate for the May–June
2012 presidential election. Morsi's victory in the presidential election was
announced on 24 June 2012 after he won the run-off election, winning 51.7
percent of the vote against Ahmed Shafik, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's last
prime minister.
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