May 23, 2013
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Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki is an Egyptian politician and a former candidate for the presidency of Egypt. He was a senior commander in the Egyptian Air Force and later served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 31 January 2011 to 3 March 2011.
After a career as a fighter pilot, and squadron, wing and base commander, Shafik was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 1996 to 2002, reaching the rank of air marshal. Thereafter he served in the government as Minister of Civil Aviation from 2002 to 2011.
He was appointed as Prime Minister by President Hosni Mubarak on 31 January 2011 in response to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, making him the last Prime Minister to serve as part of Mubarak's administration. He remained in office for only one month, resigning on 3 March 2011, one day after a contentious talk show confrontation in which Alaa Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, accused him of being a Mubarak regime holdover.
He narrowly lost out in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections to Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party, gaining 48.27% of the vote, compared to Morsi's 51.73%. In September 2012, Morsi's government issued an arrest warrant for Shafik.
(via Freebase)
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![Egyptians protest against ex-premier ahead of runoff elections [Al Jazeera, Qatar]](/images/image_cache/base-5476000/5476410/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=7cb243a3cf73a36c03656085668b5f07)
![Egyptians rally in Tahrir Square to demand revolutionary justice [Dubai TV, UAE]](/images/image_cache/base-5232000/5232863/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=6a084f2a4c135ece6ccd8f8f2f17df64 "Egyptian cleric Safwat Hegazy shouts during a demonstration at Tahrir square in Cairo, against the verdict for deposed leader Hosni Mubarak June 4, 2012: REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh")
![Egyptian revolutionaries continue mass protests after Mubarak trial verdicts [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-5183000/5183763/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=1e09555af339b22c06471e7035ff8e8f)
![Egyptian protestors call for Shafiq's disqualification [Press TV, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-5140000/5140475/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=a9645d5b3136c4c0870d5b8ff1df4e78)
![Egypt's Shafiq vows to crush revolution and restrain Islamists if he wins election [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-4955000/4955589/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=1641cc49c520b3f72498394f1639d60d "Flyers of Egyptian presidential candidate and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq are seen on the ground outside his campaign headquarters in Cairo May 29, 2012:L REUTERS/Mohammed Salem")
![Angry Egyptian protestors torch Shafiq's campaign headquarters in Cairo [Al-Alam, Iran]](/images/image_cache/base-4911000/4911367/thumbnail.width=304,height=171,grow=1,crop=center.jpg?sig=c00689e9f376db73ff12b59850e62504)