(10.01.2013) Last March, El-Helbawy formally resigned from the Brotherhood, to which he had belonged for close to six decades, on live television after Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie announced that the organisation would nominate group number-two Khairat El-Shater to run in Egypt‘s first post-Mubarak presidential elections.

Later, El-Helbawy declared that he was not happy with the Brotherhood‘s leadership.