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Muslim brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi claims victory in Egyptian elections. Addressing his supporters at a news conference on 18 June 2012, Mursi promised to be a president for all Egyptians. The announcement came via a posting on the party’s Twitter account. The Muslim Brotherhood’s website declared Mursi the “first popularly elected Egyptian president.” A member of the committee overseeing Egypt's presidential election confirmed that the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate was in the lead but said the count had yet to be finalised and result of the poll will be announced on 21 June. Photo courtesy Mohamed Abdi---NNN |
CAIRO (NNN-KUNA) -- Unofficial reports here indicate that Islamist candidate Mohammad Morsi is the victor in Egypt's first free presidential elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster 16 months ago.
Despite vagueness engulfing polling results, which will be announced on Thursday, unofficial results released by media outlets in the country have claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate has taken a 52 per cent lead in the vote, to defeat Mubarak's last prime minister and retired army general Ahmad Shafiq.
The count was based on results announced by election officials at individual polling centres, where each campaign has representatives who compile and release the numbers before the formal announcement.
If Morsi's victory is confirmed in the official results, it would be the first for an Islamist as head of state in the pro-democracy wave that swept the Middle East the past year. --- NNN-KUNA
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