Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Egyptians and their First Democratically elected President-Mr. Mohamed Morsi-Adly Mansoural-Masry al-Yom New Interim President

Egypt again on the international front-to say international could be an understatement. So let me say Egypt again on the global front. Egypt was the most hit nation during the so called Arab Spring which saw the down fall of the long term dictation Mr. Hosni Mubarak and his government. He was believed to have been in office for over 30 years.  When the people of Egypt some two years ago were so fed up they took to the streets and Tehir Square for a long period of time and finally showed the ex-president a back bench.Now that all these came and left there was a vacuum to be filled, the new government was needed, but first there has to be a president, new cabinet, new constitution etc.  To cut it all short Mr. Mohamed Morsi emerged from the popular Muslim brotherhood of Egypt. There was opposition of cause but since this was the first ever democratic process they needed, people gave it a shot.  Lo and behold the elections were held and people went out and voted to elect Mr. Morsi as the winner on June 30th 2012.
His performance for some reasons wasn't satisfactory to majority of the people of his nation. Others accused him of tilting toward his party’s interest, thus Muslim Brotherhood all at the expense of the people. People became very angry that the country has been worst in terms of its economy than it was during the era of Mr. Hosni. So his opponents started to gather signatures and petition and accordingly they were able to gather over 22 million signatures representing more than a quarter of the nation’s population. That alone communicated a message to the President.



However, Mr. Morsi went on to the national television to have a word with his people that they needed to be patient with him; acknowledging that there were challenges and he also made some mistakes but assured the people things were going to be better. Then the question becomes, did these angry people heed to his plea? Not really but ideally I think he needed to be pardon and allowed some time to improve. One year in office as the first democratically elected president is a sure bet that they will be challenges. Starting from the scratch, new constitution, and the rest all with someone with a PhD in Material Sciences not political science or good government called for thoughts.Nonetheless, these people already made their minds to take actions against the man and nothing to stop them. So exactly one year anniversary of his assumption to office; the people took to the streets to demonstrate with one word to the president “Resign”. They were violence of course between supporters of the President and the opponents. In less than s day over 16 lives were lost, and the president made it known to the people he wasn’t going to resign. Then the military came in with a 48 hour ultimatum to Mr. Morsi because the majority was against him and nothing could be done for that is how democracy works. They people have the power to seat and unseat you if they don’t like your performance. Majority rules is what it all cooked down to.
Now even with the military direct words with the President, he still remained adamant to resignation so they were counting down to the 48 hour ultimatum. Lo and behold when they time matured, the military deployed solders, tanks, amours of various assortments, fighter jet all over Cairo. By then Mr. Morsi was nowhere to be found –he was gone leaving power behind for self-security. At that point  the head of the military General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went on air to official pronounced Mr. Morsi overthrown with the constitution suspended and named the Chief Justice an Interim President, Adly Mansoural-Masry al-Yom.



As I write this, Mr. Morsi is nowhere to be traced but there is jubilation on the streets of Egypt and all over simply because of the over thrown of their president.
Now Egyptians will have to make haste to elect a new president but whoever that will be will have a lot to do. They must be complete impartiality and universality of rule among the people. Egypt is pretty complicated with population of over 80 million people is not going to be that easy.Good luck to all Egyptians, especially to my dear friend Marwa Ahmed who is currently studying in the United States.Bye Mr. Morsi 

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