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Thu May 23 11:51:12 SAST 2013

Past haunts Casablanca's infamous slum

Morsy sworn in as Egypt's first freely elected president

Sapa-AFP | 30 June, 2012 14:33
Egypt's Islamist President-elect Mohamed Morsy looks at the crowd that had gathered for his speech in Cairo's Tahrir Square June 29, 2012.
Image by: HANDOUT / REUTERS

Egypt's President Mohamed Morsy took the oath of office on Saturday to become the country's first freely elected leader and its first head of state since Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year.

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"I swear by the Almighty God to sincerely preserve the republican order and to respect the constitution and law, and completely care for the people's interest," he said at the ceremony in the Constitutional Court.

The Islamist, in a suit and burgundy tie, promised to lead a "civil, constitutional and modern state" in a short speech after taking the oath.

Morsi, the winner of a June 16 to 17 election run-off, was forced to take his oath at the court instead of in parliament after the military disbanded the Islamist-led house following a court order earlier this month.

He symbolically took his oath on Friday before tens of thousands of supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the revolt that overthrew Mubarak on February 11, 2011.

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