Mohamed Hussein Hafez

Mohamed Hussein Hafez was the first elected president of Egypt following the 2009 Egyptian Revolution. Hafez was elected with 62% of votes in his favour. He ran against the now president of Eastern Sahara Ahmed Shafik, in March 2009. Hafez was born in Suez in 1961 to a middle class family, he attended Cairo University, and later joined the military in 1982.

Hafez kept power over Eastern Sahara as the interim president until the countries first presidential elections in January 2012, where Ahmed Shafik was elected president.