Morsi / Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party presidency

Doctrine — stated goals and content

Brief Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party presidency attempting a hybrid Islamist-conservative economic line: nominal commitment to market-friendly investment promotion and an Islamic-finance-compatible sukuk framework alongside preserved food and energy subsidies, wage-bill expansion, and a renewed IMF standby negotiation ($4.8bn package agreed at staff level Nov 2012 but never signed as the government baulked at the tax and subsidy conditionality during the Constitutional Declaration backlash). Left-right placement: Islamist-conservative, socially religious-majoritarian, economically cautious-populist with episodic market-liberal gestures. Political economy dominated by the November 22 2012 Constitutional Declaration — which placed presidential decisions beyond judicial review pending ratification of the new constitution — and the rushed December 2012 constitutional referendum (63.8% yes on ~33% turnout). The Tamarod ("Rebellion") petition collected a claimed ~22m signatures by June 2013; the June 30 2013 protests drew multi-million turnout across Cairo and delta governorates; the armed forces under then- Defence Minister el-Sisi removed Morsi on July 3 2013; the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in was dispersed on August 14 2013 with >800 killed. Coherence line: Brotherhood priors over-read a thin electoral mandate, and attempted a constitutional-declaration overreach that collapsed the cross-revolutionary coalition and triggered elite-military-secular realignment against them.