On 24 June 2012, the election commission announced that Morsi had won Egypt's presidential election, thus becoming

the first democratically elected president.[1][2][3] In his run-off against Ahmed Shafik, deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's [4] last prime minister, according to official results Morsi took 51.7 percent of the vote while Shafik received 48.3 percent.[5] As he had promised during his campaign, Morsi resigned from his position as the head of the FJP after his victory was announced.[6] After Morsi temporarily granted himself unlimited powers to "protect" the nation in late November 2012,[7][8] and the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts, hundreds of thousands of protesters began demonstrating against him in the 2012 Egyptian protests.[9][10] On 8 December 2012, Morsi annulled his decree which had both expanded his presidential authority and removed judicial review of his decrees, an Islamist official said, but added that the effects of that declaration would stand.[11] George Isaac of the Constitution Party said that Morsis declaration did not offer anything new, theNational Salvation Front rejected it as an attempt to save face, and the 6 April Movementand Gamal Fahmi of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate said the new declaration failed to address the "fundamental" problem of the nature of the assembly that was tasked with drafting the constitution.[