Following is a chronology of Mohamed Mursi summing up events since Egypt’s January 25 revolution until the runoff of the country’s historic presidential election.

- Since the January 25 revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly said it will not nominate one of its members for presidency.

- The Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won 42 percent of the seats in the People’s Assembly during the latest parliamentary elections.

- In an interview with Aswat Masriya in December 2011, Mursi said, “We have no presidential candidate.”

-In February 2012, the Brotherhood’s Guide Mohamed Badie said that the candidate the brotherhood will back should have “an Islamic background”.

- After a conflict between the brotherhood and the ruling military council because of the latter’s refusal to dismiss prime minister Kamal Al-Ganzouri’s cabinet, the brotherhood began threatening to nominate one of its members for presidency.

- In March 2012, Badie announced that the brotherhood’s stance from the presidential elections changed.

- In a bold move on April 1, 2012, the FJP’s parliamentary group announced its nomination for Khairat Al-Shater as president.

- At a press conference, the brotherhood issued a statement saying that the revolution and the process of democratic change are threatened in an attempt to justify its reasons for nominating a presidential candidate.

- “After the parliamentary elections, things were not moving in the direction of the revolution. We announce this decision and we take responsibility for it,” Mursi said at press conference announcing Al-Shater’s nomination.

- On April 7, 2012, the Brotherhood surprised the political arena by nominating Mursi, head of the FJP, for president and saying he is its “reserve” candidate in case the Supreme Presidential Elections Commission (SPEC) rejects Al-Shater’s nomination as he was jailed under former president Hosni Mubarak.

- On April 14, 2012, the SPEC expelled Al-Shater from the race on grounds that he cannot practice his political rights as the pardon he received from the military council does not grant him that right.

- In the elections that took place on May 23-24, Mursi came first in the race, followed by former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq.