Khairat el-Shater
Muhammad Sa'd al - Shater Chairat (Arabic محمد خيرت سعد الشاطر, DMG Muḥammad Sa ʿ d Hairat aš - Satir [ t ˤ ː xæjɾæt eʃʃɑ eɾ ]; born May 4, 1950 in Dakahlia ) is an Islamist activist and engineer and businessman. He was a candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 2012 presidential election in Egypt. Previously, he sat for several years for alleged money laundering in prison and was deputy chairman of the Brotherhood.
Al- Shater is considered proponents of privatization and free market economy and argues for an open break with the military council. The father of ten children - and also grandfather of 16 grandchildren - operates a successful interior design and textile companies. His fortune is estimated at several million dollars; he is a major financier and chief strategist of the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, he is - and not the " Supreme Leader " Mohammed Badi - as the true leaders of the Brotherhood.
Life and Politics
Chairat al - Shater already occurred at the age of 16 the Arab Socialist Union from President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In 1968 he participated in the student protests. After he completed his two years of military service and his engineering studies had been completed at the University of Alexandria, he was a lecturer at the University of Mansura.
Later, however, he joined the Islamist opposition and went in 1981 for political reasons into exile in England. The mid-1980s he returned to Egypt and joined the Muslim brothers. In 1995 he became its leader in Greater Cairo. In 2007, he was sentenced to prison for alleged money laundering. Because of his wealth al - Shater enjoyed, however - in exchange for gifts to the security forces - benefits during detention, so he almost unaffected could continue to drive its business activities as well as his political career. Al- Shater was largely responsible for the administration of the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood. By prompted by it to invest the budget of the Islamist organization could be rehabilitated financially. The ruling military council from 2011 pardoned him in 2011.
Presidential candidacy
March 31, 2012 named him the Freedom and Justice Party as a candidate for the presidential election in May. His nomination was decided on the management committee of the organization with 56 to 52 votes. Al- Shater formally joined from from the Brotherhood to send the promise of brotherhood, no candidate in the race, not to break. The announcement of al - damage Marketers presidential candidacy was a first in the 83- year history of the Brotherhood, which had been promised that none of its members aspire to the presidency will to appease the fears of secular Egyptians and Western governments against an Islamist takeover by the group. Al- Shater had personally advocated that Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh, mastermind of liberal Islam, was expelled from the Muslim Brotherhood, as this, contrary to the requirements of the guidance offices, from which he was voted at the instigation of al - damage Roosters in 2009, his presidential nomination said.
In April 2012, the Electoral Commission announced that al - Shater excluded from the presidential election because any law says that former prisoners for six years not allowed to compete in an election after serving their sentences or pardon.