Mahmoud Mekki

Mahmoud Mekki (; born 1954) is an Egyptian politician who served as the ninth vice president of Egypt from August 2012 to December 2012. He was appointed by President Mohamed Morsi following the 2011 revolution and the 2012 presidential election on 12 August 2012. He was Egypt's first vice president from a civilian background rather than a military one. He resigned from his post on 22 December 2012.

Early life and education Mekki was born in Alexandria in 1954. After graduating from police college in Cairo he worked as a police officer in Central Security Forces.

He is younger brother of Ahmed Mekki, the former minister of justice in the Qandil Cabinet.

Career Since the mid-1980s, Mekki, along with a large number of Egypt's judges, were engaged in advocating judicial independence, an idea which was brought to light at the time by Yehia Rifai, Chairman of the Egyptian Judges' Club at the time. Brothers Ahmed and Mahmoud Makky alongside Hossam Ghariani and others were demanding separation of the executive authority over courts and the transfer of judicial inspection to the Supreme judicial Council.

Makky headed the follow-up elections in the Judges' Club, and coordinator of the movement of the independent judges. In 2006, he led demonstrations for independence of the judiciary from the executive. Makky also demanded the amendment of article 76 of the Egyptian constitution to allow multiple presidential candidates to run for elections. In 1992, Makky headed a strike by judges to request the release of two judges who they claimed had been unfairly detained. In 2006, he was cleared of the charge. The post of vice presidency of Egypt was also abolished after the constitutional referendum in December 2012. However, after the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi in the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, the position of the vice presidency was briefly restored by Acting President Adly Mansour, who appointed Mohamed ElBaradei to the post of acting vice president on 7 July 2013. After his resignation Makky assumed the role of the chairman of a national dialogue forum to consolidate political forces with the Qandil cabinet.