Egypt Elected the Muslim Brotherhood. It Lasted One Year | Part 4

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On 30 June 2012 Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was sworn in as Egypt's first freely elected president. One year and three days later the army removed him. The final part goes back to 1984, when the banned movement first ran for parliament, and follows it through 88 seats, Tahrir Square, the presidency, Rabaa, and the terrorist designations of 2013–2026. Context & numbers (as of 11 Oct 2026 — this story is still moving): • 1984–2010: the Brotherhood ran first on other parties' lists, then as independents. In 2005 it won 88 of 454 seats, the largest opposition bloc in an Egyptian parliament in half a century. In the first round of the 2010 election it won none; Egyptian monitors and Human Rights Watch reported ballot-stuffing and the expulsion of observers, the government denied fraud, and the Brotherhood withdrew from the runoff. • Hamas was founded in Gaza in December 1987 by members of the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch; its 1988 charter calls it "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine". That story is WHO IS HAMAS on this channel. • 2011: the leadership stayed out of the first protests on 25 January and joined on 28 January. It pledged in February 2011 not to seek the presidency and reversed that on 31 March 2012. Its party and allies won about 47% of parliament's elected seats. Morsi won the June 2012 runoff with 51.73%. • The decree of 22 November 2012 placed Morsi's decisions beyond judicial review until a constitution was passed; he said it protected the transition from courts that had already dissolved parliament. He rescinded most of it on 8 December 2012. Clashes outside the presidential palace that week left about ten dead, most of them his supporters; Human Rights Watch also documented Brotherhood members detaining and beating protesters. • 30 June 2013: crowd sizes are disputed and no reliable count exists. On 3 July the defence minister, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announced Morsi's removal. The United States never formally determined whether it was a coup.