Since December 2010, mass protests of the population against the domestic policies of the leaders of their countries have taken place in the Arab states. In some of them, this led to a peaceful or armed change of government. This process has not been completed everywhere, but, for example, in Egypt, after the departure of the permanent ruler of the last 30 years, the first elections have already been held, and the new president has been sworn in.
In late May and mid-June 2012, Egypt held two rounds of elections for the new president of this country. They did not evoke the same enthusiasm as the revolution itself - the turnout was 46.5%, and the difference in the number of votes cast for the winner and the loser in each round did not exceed four percent. One way or another, the president was elected - he was Mohammed Mursi Isa Al-Ayyat, chairman of the "Party of Freedom and Justice". This party is the political wing of the international Islamist religious and political association "Muslim Brotherhood".
Mohammed Morsi is an engineer by profession, graduated from the University of Cairo and received his doctorate from the American University of Southern California. Two of his five children were born in the United States, who now have American citizenship. And in California, the future president of Egypt worked for three years as an assistant professor at the university, and in 1985 he returned to his homeland. His political activities have always been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, even at a time when its representatives were prohibited from holding official positions or officially representing the Muslim Brotherhood in parliament. In the period from 2000 to 2005, he was formally an independent deputy in parliament.
Mohammed Mursi headed the "Party of Freedom and Justice" immediately after its formation in 2011. The main rival of the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the elections was Ahmed Shafik, the prime minister of the previous president's government. After the victory, Mursi resigned as party chairman and on June 30, 2012 took the oath of office as the first person of the Egyptian state.
The president's wife is named Najla Mahmoud, of their sons, one is still in high school, the other is in the department of commerce at the university, the third is a lawyer, and the eldest is a doctor in Saudi Arabia. The only daughter is married, she is also a university student, but she has already given birth to three grandchildren to Muhammad Mursi.