Abdel -Fattah El-Sisi
On Tuesday evening 3rd June 2014, the Presidential Elections Commission officially declared Egypt’s new president: former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi with 96.91% of valid votes. Egypt’s political parties, religious figures and state institutions extended their congratulations and good wishes to president-elect Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi for his sweeping electoral victory.
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi was born in Cairo on 19 November 1954, he served in the infantry after graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1977, rising to command a mechanised division.
He went on to serve as Information and Security Chief at the Defence Ministry General Secretariat, Military Attaché in Saudi Arabia, Chief-of-Staff and then Commander of Egypt’s Northern Military Zone, before being appointed head of Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance.
El-Sisi continued his military career as Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, as well as becoming the Minister of Defence. After the ousting of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, El-Sisi was appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister, while remaining as Minister of Defence. El-Sisi resigned from the military on 26th March 2014, announcing he would run for President in the 2014 Presidential elections.
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