Mahmoud Mekki from Vice president to Vatican ambassador.

On Thursday, president Mohamed Morsi appointed the former Vice President Mahmoud Mekky as Egypt’s new ambassador to the Vatican.

Morsi, previously appointed prosecutor general under Mubarak’s rule, Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud as Egypt’s ambassador to the Vatican in an attempt to dismiss him from his position. However, Abdel-Meguid maintained his position until he was dismissed 26 November and replaced by Islamist-oriented TalaatAbdallah. 

Mekky, held the vice-presidency from 12 August until 22 December and announced his resignation during the second round of the constitutional referendum. Mahmoud Mekky who first submitted his resignation the first week of November, decided to postpone his decision when Egypt was intervening as a mediator inthe crisis in Gaza. When he resigned from his post, he did it because, according to his words, the political nature of the work did not fit his career as a judge.

Mekky, who was a prominent member of the independent judges movement, was in jail during Mubarak’s government for speaking out against election fraud.