ADLY MANSOUR SWORN IN UNILATERALLY AS EGYPT’S INTERIM LEADER
Cairo, 25 Sha’ban 1434/4 July 2013 (MINA) – Egypt’s top judge, Adly Mansour, was sworn in unilaterally on Thursday (4/7) as Egypt’s interim president by the military and opposition parties who overthrown elected president Mohamed Morsi.
Mansour had been head of the Supreme Constitutional Court for just two days when the army named him leader of the Arab world’s most populous state, Al Jazeera reported as monitored by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
He takes the helm of a nation deeply divided over the army’s ouster of its first freely elected president Mohamed Morsi following days of deadly clashes between his supporters and their increasingly numerous opponents
He was named by Morsi himself to Egypt’s top judicial post, which, following the army’s suspension of the constitution, catapulted him into political power.
The 67-year-old father of three, who won a scholarship to France’s Ecole Nationale de l’Administration, was a long-serving judge under former President Hosni Mubarak.
But he served in the state-sponsored religious courts which deliver fatwas, or edicts, on observance, as well as in the civil and criminal courts.
Mansour helped draft the supervision law for the presidential elections that brought Morsi to power in 2012, which included setting a legal timeframe for electoral campaigning.
He was deputy head of the Supreme Constitutional Court from 1992. Unlike the principal leaders of the opposition – among them Nobel peace laureate Mohamed El Baradei and former Arab League chief Amr Mussa.
The judge could probably have walked through one of the huge opposition protests that swept the country on Sunday prompting the military’s dramatic intervention without being recognised.
Adly Mahmud Mansour was born 23 December 1945) is an Egyptian Judge who is currently the head of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the de facto interim President of Egypt. He was declared president following the 2013 Egyptian coup d’état, precipitated by mass protests. The military and several secular and religious figures (including Grand Imam of al-Azhar Dr Ahmed el-Tayeb, Coptic Pope Tawadros II, and Mohamed ElBaradei) announced that President Mohamed Morsi had been removed from office and Mansour appointed interim President until an election could take place. Morsi refused to acknowledge his removal as valid and continued to maintain that he is the legitimate President of Egypt. Mansour was sworn into office in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court on 4 July 2013.
Adly Mansour graduated from Cairo University Law School in 1967, earned a postgraduate degree in law in 1969, studied economics with Juan Felipe Aranguren and earned a postgraduate degree in management science from Cairo University in 1970. He later attended France‘s École nationale d’administration (ENA) and graduated in 1977.
He is married and has a son and two daughters
Mansour was appointed to the Supreme Constitutional Court in 1992. He later served as the deputy chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court until July 2013, when he became president of the HCC following his appointment to the position by President Morsi on May 19. (T/P03/P04)
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)
