#democratically elected

 However dictatorial the pre-71 government might have been, the basic contract with the governed - to provide public goods such as security and food - was upheld.

The social contract was torn up by the democratic government coming to power: terror and starvation followed.

The social contract was renewed by the succeeding military governments.

Egypt′s Former President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court. #TuesdayThoughts #ANNnews

Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected head of state who was later ousted from power, collapsed and died during a court session Monday.

Officials say the 67-year-old had just addressed the court during his trial on espionage charges when he collapsed. They say Morsi spoke for five minutes from the glass cage in which he was kept during the trial, and a…