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Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak steps down

Global Arab Network - - Rabih Serrai

Friday, 11 February 2011 17:35

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years, has stepped down, Global Arab Network reports according to Vice-President Omar Suleiman statement today

"President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down," Suleiman said in a brief statement on state-run TV.

He said Mubarak assigned the Council of the Armed Forces to run the affairs of the country.

Suleiman's short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo's Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.

Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak was the President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.

He was appointed vice president in 1975, and assumed the Presidency on October 14, 1981, following the assassination of President Anwar El Sadat.

He is the longest-serving Egyptian ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha. Before he entered politics Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force, serving as its commander from 1972 to 1975.

Beginning on January 25, 2011, protesters called for his resignation as president of Egypt.

On February 1, 2011, Mubarak announced that he will not seek another term in the upcoming presidential election.

On February 5, 2011, Egyptian state media reported that senior members of the ruling National Democratic Party, including President Hosni Mubarak, had resigned from leadership roles within the party. However, it further clarified that Mubarak would stay on as president.

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