PEC reviews appeals
By DALIA RABIE Cairo: Uncertainty in Egypt reached a fever pitch as the Presidential Election Committee (PEC) postponed the announcement of the final results until Saturday or Sunday, saying it needs more time to look into the appeals filed by both candidates. Originally scheduled for Thursday, the election runoff results were delayed when the PEC received over 400 appeals which it must investigate before making a final decision on the winner. This round’s official results are especially divisive as both the Freedom and Justice Party’s Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak’s last prime minister, claim victory with 52 and 51…
Runoff results: A reading
BY AMIRA SALAH-AHMED Cairo: It’s a close race. Preliminary results show Mohamed Morsi, head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, winning by 4 percent. Well, at least according to his campaign, which has so far held two press conferences announcing almost identical results, the first complete with a mini victory speech at 4 am on Monday. Morsi reportedly won 52 percent of the vote, while 48 percent went to his contender Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his longtime civil aviation minister. Their preliminary results show that Morsi won a total 13,238,298…
