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Mohamed Morsi

محمد مرسي
Head of state Inactive Unverified

President of Egypt 2012-2013 — the country's first democratically elected leader. Removed in a military coup led by Sisi in July 2013; died during a 2019 court hearing while imprisoned.

Country
Egypt
Party
Freedom and Justice Party
Role
Head of state
Status
Historical figure

Inherited position

Until Mohamed Morsi is scored from their own documents, this page shows their party's compass position. Where individuals visibly diverge from the party line, the gap is noted in the description above; quantifying it is what per-individual document scoring will add.

In Egypt (via Freedom and Justice Party)
-10 -10 -5 -5 5 5 10 10 Libertarian · Statist Libertarian · Market Authority · Statist Authority · Market 2 parties 2 parties 3 parties secular-liberal centroid · 2 parties ← Statist Market → Libertarian ↑ ↓ Authority Social ↕ Economic ↔ New Wafd Party (EG) · Economic +5.0, Social +3.0 EG New Wafd Party Free Egyptians Party (EG) · Economic +8.0, Social +5.5 EG Free Egyptians Party Freedom and Justice Party (EG) · dissolved · Economic +2.0, Social -7.5 EG Freedom and Justice Party Nour Party (EG) · Economic +2.5, Social -9.0 EG Nour Party Mostaqbal Watan (EG) · in government · Economic +3.0, Social -4.0 EG Mostaqbal Watan Tagammu Party (EG) · Economic -7.0, Social +4.0 EG Tagammu Party Egyptian Social Democratic Party (EG) · Economic -2.5, Social +5.0 EG Egyptian Social Democratic Party
Freedom and Justice Party's spider profile
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press
Freedom and Justice Party

Briefs about Freedom and Justice Party

Hand-written political-science mini-papers comparing Freedom and Justice Party to other parties. 3 briefs on file.

Other politicians in Freedom and Justice Party

Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

On the record

Quotes attributed to Mohamed Morsi that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • If the price of preserving legitimacy is my blood, then I am prepared to sacrifice my blood for the sake of this homeland and its legitimacy.
    إن كان ثمن الحفاظ على الشرعية هو دمي، فإنني مستعد للتضحية بدمي في سبيل هذا الوطن وشرعيته.
    2013 Final televised presidential address on 2 July 2013 — the night before the military deposed him — defending the legitimacy of the ballot box. en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com
  • Our brothers and sisters in Palestine must also taste the fruits of freedom and dignity.
    2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — Egypt's first post-revolution Islamist-presidential UN speech. voltairenet.org
  • We are committed to what we have signed on.
    2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — implicit affirmation of continued adherence to the Camp David peace treaty. voltairenet.org
  • I assure you of Egypt's full support to any course of action Palestine decides to follow in the United Nations.
    2012 Egyptian president's address to the UN General Assembly 67th session, 26 September 2012 — explicit endorsement of Palestinian sovereignty-bid diplomacy. voltairenet.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Mohamed Morsi [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohamed-morsi
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mohamed Morsi." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohamed-morsi.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-mohamed-morsi,
  title     = {{Mohamed Morsi}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mohamed-morsi},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.