The Muslim Brotherhood has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt’s presidential election.
Morsi “is the first civilian, popularly elected Egyptian president,” the group says on its website.
The declaration was based on returns the Brotherhood reported from 95 percent of the more than 13,000 polling stations nationwide. The returns showed Morsi with 52 percent of the vote, his opponent former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq with 48 percent. A million votes separated the two, which a Brotherhood spokesman said the remaining votes could not overcome the difference for Shafiq.
The figures were from results announced by election officials at individual counting centers, where each campaign has representatives who compile the numbers and make them public before the formal announcement. The Brotherhood’s early, partial counts proved generally accurate in last month’s first round vote.
The final official result is to be announced by Thursday.
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Well, we’ll see, how this works out. If the official announcement goes the other way, they’ll be back at square one. If it doesn’t, they’ll have a different form of oppression. And, then there’s that pesky court they have over there who dissolved the legislature. Another question is if the military will accept this or not.
hopey changey at work………..
Indeed! Hopey Changey on steroids! The western nations of the world isolated Mubarak, and helped force him out of office. They wanted change, and they hoped for the best. Now, they’ve got either anarchy coming, or a power sharing agreement with the military and a theocracy. Nice.
I heard on the radio that the first thing the ‘brotherhood’ did was lob a few rockets into Israel…..from Egypt!
I’d heard that, too. Wonder why it isn’t covered in the news today?
because it will make the supreme leader look bad…………
Yep…… but, he’s looking awful on this anyway.