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Old 06-24-2012, 08:52   #1
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Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi declared Egypt president

Muslim Brotherhood's Mursi declared Egypt president

It appears the gov't sources were wrong. The MB is happy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18571580

"The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi has been declared the winner of Egypt's presidential election run-off.

He won 51.73% of the vote, beating former PM Ahmed Shafiq, the Higher Presidential Election Commission said.

The head of the panel of judges, Farouq Sultan, said it had upheld some of the 466 complaints by the candidates, but that the election result still stood.............."

The fun ride begins to pick up steam.

Another source - note the margin of victory - and the number of invalidated votes. Would be interesting to get a count of the 800,000 ballots that were DQed.


Morsi wins Egypt's presidential election

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...445190400.html

"...........Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote. His competitor, Ahmed Shafiq, the final prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, received 12.3 million. More than 800,000 + ballots were invalidated..................."
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