Muslim Brotherhood blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud wrote about the election of the new leader at Ana Ikhwan saying: The Muslim Brotherhood has ended its elections that lasted for four months, and they have announced a new supreme leader, Muhammad Badei, a 67-year-old professor of veterinary medicine, to become the eighth leader of the group. The former leader of the group, Mahdy Akef, paid his allegiance to the new leader.