Morsi’s Downfall

... won 51.7 per cent of the votes in the second round of the presidential election in June 2012, against 48.3 per cent in favor of Ahmed Shafik. It is no exaggeration to say that the nation currently is split in two. Morsi is supported by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, some Salafis and followers of the ultra-Islamist terrorist factions at Jamaat e-Islami and also by some who supported the revolution that ousted Mubarak in 2011. The proponents of the liberal and secular government in Egypt include Elbaradei, Al Beblawi and ...