After weeks of protest, caused in part by perceptions of government corruption, Mubarak resigned in February 2011, replaced by
an interim military government.
Their failure to defend the position of a democratically elected leader also signalled to
the interim military government that the international community was prepared to tolerate democratic backsliding.
A chronic lack of trust has also fuelled escalation of the conflict between
the interim military government and Morsy supporters, which erupted into shocking scenes of violence and brutality on Wednesday.
After Mubarak gave up power,
the interim military government held parliamentary elections that yielded an Islamist supermajority comprised of the Muslim Brotherhood and the extreme Islamist (Salafist) Alliance.
The south was placed under
the Interim Military Government of the United States.
Not exact matches
From an article on this same subject on CNN, it states: «Egypt's
military rulers and
interim civilian
government were losing patience with the protesters and that they «will be the losers if this sit - in continues.»
He stated that when former
military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, set up an
interim national
government in 1993, the dictator offered him a position in the
government through the late General Shehu Yar» Adua (ret.).
The
interim government was with a clause, which would make the
military to come back again.