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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

Position

Mohamed Morsi sits with Freedom and Justice Party, which doesn't carry a single compass position, so an individual position is being scored from the 3 source documents on file (below).

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 August 6, 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 August 6, 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   = {2026-08-06},
  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 August 6, 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 = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

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