Mohammed Morsi, head of the Brotherhood’s political front, the Freedom and Justice Party
The
declaration by the commission’s chairman, Farouq Sultan, a judge close
to ex-President Hosni Mubarak, relieves immediate concern at the
possibility of widespread unrest by Islamists and secular
revolutionaries, who had feared the win would be given to Mr Morsi’s
opponent, Ahmed Shafiq,a retired general and Mr Mubarak’s last prime
minister
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The Egyptian Presidential Election Commission on Sunday announced that Mohammed Morsi, head of the Brotherhood’s political front, the Freedom and Justice Party, won a narrow but clear victory.
