Added on 25/06/2012
Editor, MEP
Egypt , Mohammed Morsi , Muslim Brotherhood , President , Video , Videos
Egypt Celebrates as Morsi Declared Winner
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi has officially won Egypt’s presidential election and will be the country’s next president, the electoral commission has announced.
Morsi picked up 13.2 million votes out of just over 26 million, giving him about 51 per cent of the vote. His competitor, Ahmed Shafik, the final prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, received 12.3 million. More than 800,000 ballots were invalidated.
Al Jazeera‘s Mike Hanna on how the day unfolded.
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