General Sisi addressing just after coup against democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi |
Egyptian formal army chief and sole presidential favorite Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that if he wins the presidential elections he will wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood.
Former Army general, Abdul Fatah al-Sisi removed Egypt's first ever democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi from power by a coup in last July.
Muhammad Morsi was jailed by General Sisi last year |
Like all army dictators in Muslim world, Sisi had also denied that he had any political ambitions when he ousted President Morsi and launched a violent crackdown on his party Muslim Brotherhood killing hundreds and thousands had been jailed and Brotherhood was named terrorist organization.
Egypt has been ruled by military since 1950s, a line briefly broken by democratically elected president Muhammad Mursi who was about a year in the office.