 Welcome back to The Breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for a little bit of history and I'm going back to the year 2012 to talk about the fifth, I believe, president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi. It was on this day that he became president, but just a little bit of history. Eventually he died in 2019. He was born on the 8th of August in 1951, died on the 17th of June in 2019. He was an Egyptian politician and engineer who served as the fifth president from the 3rd of June 2012 right after the Arab Spring that deposed for my Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. He eventually took over as president on the 30th of June in 2012 and was kicked out in 2013 on the 3rd of July when General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'etat after protest. He was an Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and it's one of the things that he was also charged with in a very, very long trial before he eventually passed on during the trial. He led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012. As president he issued a temporary constitutional declaration in November 2012 and that in effect granted him unlimited powers and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or any review of his acts. June 2013 protest calling for Morsi's resignation erupted. The military backed by political opposition and leading religious figures stepped in and deposed Morsi in a coup. It suspended constitutionally appointed Adli Mansour as interim president back then in 2013. The pro-Morsi demonstrations were crushed resulting in over 800 deaths. Eventually of course he was sentenced to death but the death sentence was overturned in 2016 and the retrial was ordered. He then passed on on the 17th of June like I said earlier in 2019 but it was on this day that he was, he became rather president of Egypt. It was a very, very sad turn of events after he became president after Hosni Mubarak was kicked out in the Arab Spring and people call it very hypocritical because some of the things that they had accused Hosni Mubarak of were some of the things that he eventually wanted to start doing and of course the controversy, I think what I call a controversy concerning the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliations with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Hamas and Hezbollah and some of all those other groups also criticized them and had their challenges with their alliances basically the alliances and their ideologies but he eventually passed on. Embarrassing actually when he was sent to, during his trial period when he always used to appear in a cage in court. Embarrassing from a president to a cage. He was 61 years old when he became president of Mohammed Morsi. He received a personal phone call from the United States President Barack Obama congratulating him. People celebrated. He was the first Islamic, you know, democratically elected president of Egypt so it was lots of celebrations but things took a nosedive when, you know, there began to be anti-government protests, you know, all the issues in the country and then in just about a year, you know, he basically was toppled from power. A short story about Mohammed Morsi there but that's what happened today in history. In 2008, 2012, he became the president of that country. Let's take a break here and we'll return for our first major conversation. Do stay with us.