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MENA politics is fluid. Parties merge, split, reform; leaders are elected, dismissed, or killed; regimes fall. The party and politician pages capture the dataset as it stands now; Pulse captures the movement — what just happened, what's under way, what's rumored but not yet formal. Each event carries a confidence rating and the same per-field source citations as every other Tayyar entity.
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Egypt date pending Periodic speculation about ElBaradei political return
Periodic speculation in Egyptian diaspora media about a possible Mohamed ElBaradei political return when Sisi steps down. No formal announcement; the speculation tracks ongoing discussions about post-Sisi succession scenarios.
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Older confirmed events on file. The lens reaches back to political shifts that still shape today's positions.
- Confirmed Election held Egypt December 18, 2023
Egypt: Sisi wins a third term with 89.6% in a tightly managed election
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected to a third term in a vote his three official challengers conceded was uncompetitive before counting finished. The most-watched opposition candidate, Ahmed al-Tantawi, had withdrawn after a campaign of pressure on his organizers, multiple arrests of staff, and a Pegasus spyware infection on his phone. Sisi's win was less the story than the economic crisis it failed to address — the pound went on to halve against the dollar three months later under an IMF deal.
- Confirmed Election held Egypt December 12, 2023
Sisi re-elected with 89.6% vote
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected for a third term as President of Egypt on 2023-12-12 with 89.6% of the vote. Major opposition figures were either barred from running or imprisoned ahead of the vote.
- Confirmed Other Egypt August 14, 2013
Rabaa massacre
Egyptian security forces cleared the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Square sit-ins on 2013-08-14, killing at least 817 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in a single day. Human Rights Watch called it one of the worst single-day mass killings of demonstrators in modern history. Marked the consolidation of Sisi's power.
- Confirmed Coalition collapsed Egypt July 3, 2013
Morsi ousted, Brotherhood government ends
Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed elected President Mohamed Morsi from power on 2013-07-03 after mass protests against the Brotherhood government, suspended the constitution, and arrested senior Brotherhood figures. The end of Egypt's post-Mubarak democratic experiment.
- Confirmed Election held Egypt June 24, 2012
Mohamed Morsi elected president
Muslim Brotherhood–backed Morsi defeats Ahmed Shafiq with 51.7% in the second-round runoff — the first democratically elected civilian president in Egyptian history.
- Confirmed Leader changed Egypt February 11, 2011
Hosni Mubarak resigns
18 days into the Tahrir Square uprising, VP Omar Suleiman announces Mubarak's resignation; power transfers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Ends 30 years of Mubarak presidency.
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