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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.
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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