No official source has yet communicated the results of the presidential elections in Egypt: the counting of the votes is still underway. But Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood (Justice and Freedom), has already given his party the winner.
The Brothers announced the victory of their candidate: "Dr. Mohamed Morsi, with approximately 12 million and 700.000 votes, equivalent to 52,2 percent", against 11 million for his opponent, Ahmed Shafik. A spokesman for Morsi's electoral staff, Abdel Atti, announced that the results communicated concern the result of the vote in 98 percent of the polling stations. The official results, as explained on the eve of the vote, are expected on Thursday the 21st. But in the meantime, a thousand Muslim Brothers have already gone to Tahrir Square to celebrate their candidate's victory.
Morsi thanked all the Egyptians who participated in the elections and a "greeting of peace even to those who did not vote for me". The staff of Shafik, Mubarak's former prime minister, described himself as "amazed by the speech" of the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, which "represents - he continues - a violation of the laws of the electoral commission. Although this is the only authority entitled to give the results, our tally shows that we stand at 52%».
