Adly Mansour, Egypt's new interim president, swore the oath of office in front of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday morning, ending a whirlwind insurrection that brought millions of Egyptians onto the streets and overturned an Islamist president that only days ago had seemed immutable.
Adly
Mansour
,
Egypt
's new
interim president, swore the oath of office in front of
Egypt
's
Supreme
Constitutional Court
on Thursday morning, ending a
whirlwind insurrection that brought millions of Egyptians onto the streets and
overturned an Islamist president that only days ago had seemed immutable.
Mr. Mansour swore his oath hours after Egyptian security forces moved briskly
to arrest and detain hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood leaders --the powerful
Islamist organization that has dominated Egyptian elections over the past two
years.
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's ousted president, was reportedly in police custody on
Thursday morning after he refused to step down from his post on the orders of
Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Wednesday night.
Highlighting the haste of
Egypt
's
second revolution in more than two years, Mr. Mansour took two oaths on
Thursday morning: The first made him chief justice of the
Supreme
Constitutional Court
while the second elevated him
to the presidency.
Mr. Mansour has been the head of
Egypt
's
Supreme
Constitutional Court
since Monday, but the court's
own swearing-in ceremony was delayed for several days due to massive street
protests against Mr. Morsi's rule.
The leader of
Egypt
's
military ousted Mr. Morsi from office and replaced him with Mr. Mansour late
Wednesday evening. The presidential palace immediately branded the move a
"complete military coup." The announcements capped days of political
crisis that brought millions of Egyptians out to the country's streets,
spurring bellicose rhetoric from Mr. Morsi's backers and
Egypt
's
military, and sparking deadly violence. Two years after the biggest tremor of
the Arab Spring ousted Hosni Mubarak, and a year after his elected replacement
took office, Egyptian streets again thronged with protesters calling for the
removal of a despot, the stark divides between their celebration and anger
suggesting a new period of political uncertainty lies ahead.
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