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Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi declared Egypt president

(CNN) -- When the cheers subside in Tahrir Square, Mohamed Morsi will assume an Egyptian presidency straightjacketed by the country's military, start work under intense international scrutiny and inherit a country on its back economically.
He'll face the skepticism of people like Mohamed Saleh, one of the throng that waited for Sunday's declaration of Morsi's victory in Tahrir Square. Even as he cheered the result, Saleh said the real power in Egypt still lies with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power after Mubarak's ouster.
"They don't give us power. Mohamed Morsi is just a name of president," Saleh said. "He doesn't have the power, SCAF has the power."
Egypt's electoral commission declared Morsi the country's president-elect Sunday after a runoff with Ahmed Shafik, a former air force general who served as longtime strongman Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister. With the announcement of Morsi's victory, cheers erupted in Tahrir Square, the Cairo plaza that was the epicenter of the 2011 revolt that toppled Mubarak.
Morsi urges unity in first speech
His supporters already are pushing for a confrontation with the generals, who recently ordered an elected, Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved and announced they would retain legislative power for now.
"Will the military council respect the Egyptian will or not?" asked Abdoul Mawgoud Dardery, a member of parliament from Morsi's Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of Egypt's long-suppressed Muslim Brotherhood. "If it respects it, we will be able to work together. If it does not, the military council knows very well where Mubarak is right now."
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Dardery said the Brotherhood and its supporters would remain in Tahrir Square until they get what they want. Khaled Fahmy, a historian at the American University in Cairo, said that determination is born of the hard lessons that followed the ouster of Mubarak, who has been sentenced to life in prison for ordering the killings of anti-government protesters in the 2011 revolt.
World leaders, regular folks react to Morsi's victory
"We thought the revolution was over, that we won when we forced the president to resign, and we went back home," Fahmy told CNN. "And obviously, the revolution was far from being over, and our demands were far from being answered."
SCAF dissolved parliament elected earlier this year following a ruling by Egypt's high court that the law governing the parliamentary elections was invalid. The generals said the new president would set a date for parliamentary elections and would have the power to appoint government officials, name ambassadors to foreign countries and grant pardons -- but the junta will keep legislative power and the budget in its hands until new lawmakers are elected.
The Brotherhood and the secular liberal groups that launched the 2011 protests have to maintain that presence to keep pressure on the government, Fahmy said. Meanwhile, he said, the military's announcement that it would retain legislative and budgetary power "is effectively a recipe for at best a paralysis in the executive branch of the government."
The Muslim Brotherhood explained
At worst, it could mean a fight with the generals at a time when Egypt's economy is still recovering from the nosedive that accompanied the revolution.
"They've lost 2 million jobs since February of last year," said U.S. congressman David Dreier, an election observer during the runoff. "By virtue of that, they really need to get the economy growing and get people back to work."
Dreier, a California Republican, told CNN's "State of the Union" that he is backing a U.S.-Egyptian free trade bill in Congress in hopes of boosting Egyptian fortunes.
Before the revolution, about 40% of Egyptians lived in poverty. Tourism was the bedrock of the country's economy, "and it has come to standstill" amid the past year's turmoil," Fahmy said.
"The unemployment rate has hiked up. There's not much inflation, but occasionally shortages in fuel and shortages of basic supplies," he said.
Who is Mohamed Morsi?
Morsi vowed to revive the economy in the speech he delivered to the nation late Sunday, telling Egyptians their resources were plentiful but had been "squandered and mismanaged." And Cairo's stock market jumped more than 3% on Sunday, which Fahmy called "an indication of how sensitive the markets are for stability."
"In a sense, it's a vote for the fact that it's democracy that brings stability rather than the military or the police," he said. "It's not a flight of capital out of Egypt because of Islamists winning, it's the exact opposite. It's a vote of confidence not so much in the Brotherhood itself, but in the democratic process."
Egypt has long been the leading U.S. ally in the Arab world, receiving $1.3 billion annually in American military aid for decades. Its peace treaty with Israel is a cornerstone of regional diplomacy. Israel has reacted cautiously to the elections, issuing a statement Sunday that it "appreciates the democratic process in Egypt and respects the results of the presidential elections."
"Israel looks forward to continuing cooperation with the Egyptian government on the basis of the peace treaty between the two countries, which is a joint interest of both peoples and contributes to regional stability," the statement said.
Despite his previous fierce criticism of Israel -- including calling Israeli leaders "vampires" and "killers" -- Morsi pledged Sunday night that Egypt "will preserve all national and international agreements" under his leadership. Edwin Walker, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt, told CNN that abandoning the treaty was "not going to be possible."
"You can't just tear up the peace treaty and start over again," he said.
And Fahmy said the hard realities of the economy and the still-unsettled revolution are likely to make revisiting the Egyptian-Israeli pact a distant prospect.
"I don't think foreign relations, or specifically relations with Israel, will be on the top of their priority list," he said. "They are way too smart to open up this question now, and I don't think they're too keen on opening it on the medium front."
Why Hosni Mubarak's death wouldn't change Egypt's future
Morsi also may have to deal with a split in the ranks of his own party, between those who may advocate smoothing things over with the generals and others who want to cultivate ties with secular liberals and leftists.
"The Brotherhood is a huge organization. It is a very venerable organization. It is an old one," Fahmy said. "But I think it is also facing its greatest threat, and it's a threat paradoxically prompted by its victory."
The group survived years of crackdowns by Egyptian rulers by staying underground, insisting on cohesion and secrecy and not tolerating dissent. But now, "We're seeing youthful brothers who, in my reading, have much more in common with the secularist revolutionaries than with the elderly Muslim Brotherhood members."
Nevertheless, the arrival of a democratically elected leader is a moment Egyptians have awaited "for the past 7,000 years," Dardery said.
"This is a great moment in history, and we're going to be making history from now on," he said.
 
Good i am happy wish they look after a least or do something for our brother and sister in Palestine
 
Mr. Morsi Born in a village on the eastern delta of the Nile in August 1951, his provincial, middle-class origins propelled him to a successful academic career.

He spent his student years at Cairo University, from whose prestigious engineering faculty he graduated in 1975, at a time when the revival of the Islamist trend in student politics - encouraged by Sadat against the left - was in full swing.

He graduated to stints as an assistant professor of engineering at California State University, Northridge and at Nasa, where he worked on the development of space shuttle engines (while his speciality is in metallurgical engineering, in a sense Egypt's new president is a rocket scientist).

Returning to Egypt in 1985 - two of his five children were born in California and are entitled to US citizenship - Mr Morsi accepted a teaching position at Zagazig University, while also rising through the ranks of the Brotherhood, serving on its influential Guidance Bureau.

Compare him to our leaders education wise and also the nationality wise both for his children and himself. Our leaders leading the nation in the parliament are not even 10% of him in education and are open traitors and moles within as per their passports.
 
and izrael has a neighbourer !!


and he speaks Arabic !!

I love the response of the people !!

btw is he from Muslim Brotherhood?
 
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and izrael has a neighbourer !!


and he speaks Arabic !!

I love the response of the people !!

btw is he from Muslim Brotherhood?

This is not Mursi?!!!
 
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Jun 25, 2012

Mohammed Morsi: Egypt's accidental president

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's new president, spent his election campaign being derided as "the spare tyre" - a reference to his being the backup choice to the Muslim Brotherhood strongman Khairat Al Shater. As he trailed in the polls until a week before elections began, many said he had no charisma and would have a hard time making it to the second round of elections. But Mr Morsi had the last laugh.

As it turns out, charisma was not what was needed for the race. The Brotherhood's get-out-the-vote ability - their presence on the street and core of committed campaigners - was enough, and if anything Mr Morsi is the quintessential organisational man.

His opponents may have been aware of the Brotherhood's strength, but they still underestimated Mr Morsi's best-prized talent: electioneering.

Elite Cairenes like to joke about his awkward speeches, bad haircut and general lack of grace and direct manner. This may be true, but misses an important fact: to many Egyptians, this makes him look more down to earth (and, in person, he is like most of his countrymen, warm and polite).

Even so, Mr Morsi is no country bumpkin. Born in a village on the eastern delta of the Nile in August 1951, his provincial, middle-class origins propelled him to a successful academic career.

He spent his student years at Cairo University, from whose prestigious engineering faculty he graduated in 1975, at a time when the revival of the Islamist trend in student politics - encouraged by Sadat against the left - was in full swing.

He graduated to stints as an assistant professor of engineering at California State University, Northridge and at Nasa, where he worked on the development of space shuttle engines (while his speciality is in metallurgical engineering, in a sense Egypt's new president is a rocket scientist).

Returning to Egypt in 1985 - two of his five children were born in California and are entitled to US citizenship - Mr Morsi accepted a teaching position at Zagazig University, while also rising through the ranks of the Brotherhood, serving on its influential Guidance Bureau.

For more than a decade, he served as the Brotherhood's chief political strategist, taking the Islamists' presence in parliament from a handful in the 1990s to 17 in 2000, when he was first elected to parliament.

By 2005, when Egypt held parliamentary elections in the context of US pressure for democratisation, they won 88 seats, or 20 per cent. Between 2000 and 2005, he served as the head of the Brotherhoods' parliamentary group (he represented his hometown of Zagazig, in the eastern delta), and was credited alongside a handful of oppositions MPs for reviving parliament's feistiness.

At a time when many believed, including inside the Brotherhood, that contesting parliamentary seat was a pointless exercise, since the Mubarak regime would never allow their voices to count, he showed that there was a point to participation.

Mr Morsi took seriously parliament's role of providing government oversight at a time when it was little more than a rubber stamp. Still, the Brotherhoods' numbers meant their opinion could easily be ignored by the majority, and their objections and summons of ministers were an annoyance more than a serious challenge to the regime.

Yet Mr Morsi proved enough of an annoyance to make the regime intent on preventing his return to parliament. When he ran again, his district of Zagaziq was overtaken by security forces and the result rigged against him. Even if the regime allowed a far larger number of Brotherhood MPs in, they did not want the more articulate kind of troublemakers like him.

He went on to head the Brotherhood's own political committee, overseeing its new strategy of contesting every possible election between 2006 and 2011. This made him one of the Brotherhood's most powerful men - one of the six or so men who control the organisation's finances, administration, recruitment and political strategy. The last of these was Mr Morsi's forte, which made him a shoo-in for the presidency of the Freedom and Justice Party the Brotherhood founded after the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

For many, his political talent and academic career will be besides the point. The most common charge heard against Mr Morsi is that, as president, he would defer to the positions of the Brotherhood's leadership. This remains to be tested, as is his promise to be the "president of all Egyptians", even those who are not Islamists.

Mr Morsi is a conservative's conservative, from the more hardline wing of the group. His record in parliament shows that he is quick to insert questions of religion into everyday matters, such as whether government loans should be Islamically correct, as well as wage culture wars against books and films deemed too liberal (especially if they are produced with state funding). He did not protest when, in campaign speeches, he was compared to Abu Bakr Al Siddiq, Prophet Mohammed's closest friend and the first caliph after his death. Or when supporters spoke of recreating the Caliphate with Jerusalem as a capital. It is unclear how much he believes in that project.

In an article for the London Guardian newspaper last week he wrote: "I was jailed by the old regime. I belong to the middle classes that were sold out by the old establishment. I hold political and social views that are shared by many in our society but were suppressed or criminalised by the old regime. I understand the ambitions, values and standards held by many mainstream Egyptians."

Mr Morsi ran a classic two-round presidential campaign: in the first round, he focused on his conservative base to ensure he made it to the run-off; in the second, he attempted to broaden his appeal. He is now the president of a bitterly divided country, and his own powers are uncertain.

He may not be the great unifying leader many Egyptians hoped to see navigate the post-Mubarak transition, but he is the president they elected.

His task as Egypt's first democratically elected president is now to move from the behind-the-scenes strategising to leading a nation that still has a long way to go towards democracy.

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Egypt’s new president Mohammed Morsi waves to supporters outside a polling station in Zagazig, northeast of Cairo, earlier this month.

Mohammed Morsi: Egypt's accidental president - The National
 
How will it affect other muslim brotherhoods? Like the one in Jordan?
 
I hope Egypt doesn't turn into another battleground of influence in the middle east after Bahrain and Syria.

Mohamed Morsi And the Brother Hood cant stand The Saudis they no house of Saud is nothing more then Western stooges.So far what ever they have announced and have done shows they are Their to turn Egypt Around.(house of Saud lovers will run around promoting him as one of them he isn't.

An Islamist jailed by Hosni Mubarak has succeeded him as president of the biggest Arab nation in a victory at the ballot box which has historic consequences for Egypt and the Middle East.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammad Mursi will not enjoy the extent of modern, pharaonic powers exercised by Mubarak: those have been curtailed by a military establishment which will decide just how much he will be able to do in government.
Still, the U.S.-trained engineer's victory in the country's first free presidential election breaks domination by men from the armed forces, which have provided every Egyptian leader since the overthrow of the monarchy 60 years ago.
However Good luck to great Egyptian people and Mr. mursi in their transition to democratic process . :tup:

The interim ruling military junta, in office since the fall of Mubarak, has entrenched itself in power.

In a week, it will go through the charade of handing over power to the civilian Morsi. But the presidential powers have all been stripped away. The parliament elected just six months ago, and dominated by the Brotherhood, has been dismissed. The other centres of power — the judiciary, the electoral commission, etc. — are controlled by army acolytes. Morsi’s challenge will be to use his mandate to democratize Egypt. It will be a long and slow process.

He will need to mobilize as many segments of the Egyptian population as possible. The immensity of his challenge can best be understood by what has transpired in Turkey.

There, a similarly entrenched army and other elements of the state fought tooth and nail to keep democratic forces at bay for decades. It took Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan three majority governments to bring the army under civilian control.

Morsi is dealing from a much weaker position than Erdogan.

He will first have to ensure that parliamentary elections take place as soon as practically possible. He will then have to work with the majority party, whichever it may be, to wrest control of the government from the army and other anti-democratic forces.

However, he cannot succeed in that noble task without first fixing the tattered economy.

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR EGYPTIAN BROTHERS YOU HAVE TAKEN A BIG STEP FOR THE BEST.
 
Egyptian presidency denies Mursi gave interview on stronger ties with Iran

The Egyptian presidency has denied that President-elect Mohammed Mursi gave an interview to Iran's Fars agency on Monday, in which he had been reported to say that he was looking to expand ties with Tehran to create a strategic “balance” in the region.

“Mr. Mursi did not give any interview to Fars and everything that this agency has published is without foundation,” a spokesman for the Egyptian presidency told the official news agency MENA.

Earlier, Fars had quoted him as saying he was interested in better relations with Tehran, Reuters reported. “This will create a balance of pressure in the region, and this is part of my program.”

Egyptian presidency denies Mursi gave interview on stronger ties with Iran

Farce news did it again. :lol:
 
and izrael has a neighbourer !!


and he speaks Arabic !!

I love the response of the people !!

btw is he from Muslim Brotherhood?

as per the agreement, he has withdrawn his position from the Ikhwan (Brotherhood) and is now representing the FJP
 
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Jun 26, 2012

Egypt's president Morsi holds a poisoned chalice

More than 80 years after its founding, the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood has achieved its dream of placing one of its own at the top of the Egyptian government.

But the new president faces daunting challenges as he attempts to unite a polarised society, regain control over writing a new constitution and steer the economy back from the edge of collapse.

Mohammed Morsi, 60, who was declared the winner of the presidential race on Sunday, yesterday arrived in one of the palaces once occupied by the ousted former president Hosni Mubarak to begin putting together a team of advisers.

How he fares during the next year will have lasting effects on how Egyptians view Islamist political groups and whether the Muslim Brotherhood's political dominance can last.

Mr Morsi officially resigned from the Brotherhood and its political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, after he became president, but many believe that was a mere formality and that the group now has strong influence over the presidency.

Any perception of failure could have ramifications in other countries building new democracies after the Arab Spring uprisings, where Islamist groups are also on the rise.

The immediate obstacle to Mr Morsi's initiatives is the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), a group of generals who have controlled Egypt's democratic transition and who have long viewed the Muslim Brotherhood with suspicion. In the past two weeks, the Scaf have dissolved parliament after a ruling from the Supreme Constitutional Court that some of the elections were unconstitutional, given itself broad powers to arrest civilians, stripped some of the powers from the presidency and taken control of the committee that will rewrite a new constitution.

If the Scaf's new powers are not curtailed, then they can veto the new president's initiatives. Even more ominous is the possibility of new presidential elections being held in a year, after a new constitution is drawn up - a move suggested as likely by the civilian advisory council to the Scaf.

The situation has led to fears that Mr Morsi was being handed a poisoned chalice by gaining the public responsibility for Egypt's path to stability and prosperity without the executive powers to make meaningful changes.

Some observers believe that Mr Morsi, supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, will be able to wrench some of the traditional roles of the presidency back from the military in the weeks ahead.

"The deck is stacked against him, but I certainly don't think it will stay that way," said Eric Trager, a fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who is in Cairo. "Even if he doesn't have formal power for awhile - and I don't think that will last long - he'll still be able to use the bully pulpit in a very influential way."

Despite Mr Morsi's seemingly diminished role, he will have control over the government through a new cabinet that he is expected to appoint this week. He has pledged to focus on pressing domestic issues, rather than more sensitive topics such as oversight of the military and its economic interests.

A non-profit group in Egypt has launched a "MorsiMeter" website to track his adherence to his list of promises for the first 100 days of his presidency. Those include pledges to restore security, increase pay for police and ease the fuel, food, housing and unemployment crises that have wracked the country for years.

Mostafa Rafaat, a founding member of Zabatak - the group that created the MorsiMeter (http://morsimeter.com) - said he was confident Mr Morsi would meet many of the challenges.

"Even with the military taking some of his powers away, he can still use the cabinet to make changes," he said.

The biggest problem, from Mr Rafaat's perspective, is reforming the ministry of interior because of a "culture of corruption" within the police force.

The economy is also a priority. Since Mubarak resigned 17 months ago, unemployment has increased to more than 12 per cent and there are regular shortages of bread and fuel.

The central bank has had to spend more than US$20 billion (Dh73.46bn) in international reserves to prop up the domestic currency, leaving it with enough money to pay for three months of imports, economists say.

The country's balance of payments, one of the most closely watched indicators of an economy's performance, has doubled to $11.2bn in the nine months to March, the central bank said this month, as the country's instability caused tourism revenues and foreign direct investment to fall.

Mr Morsi will also have to balance his former group's plans for pushing the country closer to an Islamic state while many Egyptians are fearful that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to turn the country into a theocracy. He won the presidency with just a 3 per cent margin, with many citizens supporting Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

"How the Muslim Brotherhood will balance the need to make pragmatic policy choices with the need to appease those of a more hard-line orientation will be a key challenge," said Alison Pargeter, the author of The Muslim Brotherhood: The Burden of Tradition.

One of the areas where that tightrope walk will play out initially is foreign policy. Mr Morsi rattled some international observers by announcing that Egypt would restore its relationship with Iran during his victory speech on Sunday night.

"My guess is that in order to prove to their support base that they are not reliant on western support, they will try to reorient the country towards the Gulf for investment and tourism," Ms Pargeter said.

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President elect Mohammed Morsi (second from right) arrives in his office in ousted leader Mubarak’s former palace.


http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/egypts-president-morsi-holds-a-poisoned-chalice#page1
 
The picture above reminds me of the ayat from the Qur'an

قل اللهم مالك الملك تؤتي الملك من تشاء وتنزع الملك ممن تشاء وتعز من تشاء وتذل من تشاء بيدك الخير إنك على كل شيء قدير

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Say, "O Allah , Owner of Sovereignty, You give sovereignty to whom You will and You take sovereignty away from whom You will. You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will. In Your hand is [all] good. Indeed, You are over all things competent.

Surat 'Ali `Imran [3:26] - The Noble Qur'an - ?????? ??????

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Mubarak was sitting on that chair and now is in jail, and who was imprisoned by Mubarak has taken Mubarak's chair.
 
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المشير حسين طنطاوى والرئيس محمد مرسى خلال الاجتماع مع أعضاء المجلس الأعلى للقوات المسلحة أمس​
 

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