MB Heralds Candidate Morsi, President Of Egypt

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has announced that its candidate Mohamed Morsi has won the country’s run-off presidential election.

At a pre-dawn press conference on Monday, the Brotherhood officials declared their victory over ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak’s last Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq in the election. The officials said that the results from 98 percent of the polling stations showed that Morsi won 52 percent of the vote.

Morsi “is the first civilian, popularly elected Egyptian president,” the group said on its website.

“Thank God who guided the people of Egypt to this right path, the path of freedom and democracy,” Morsi said to the crowd who had gathered outside his campaign headquarters in his first address after the victory. 

He promised to “be a president for all Egyptians … a servant to them” and seek a “civil, democratic, constitutional and modern state.” 

This is while analysts earlier said that the Egyptian military was gearing up to announce Shafiq as the winner of the first presidential vote since the country’s 2011 revolution. According to reports, the junta has made agreements with the United States to complete a planned coup by bringing Shafiq to power.

Meanwhile, on the second and final day of the voting, the ruling military issued an amended constitutional declaration, allowing the body to remain in control of the country’s legislation and budget. 

Moreover, prior to the runoff race between Shafiq and Morsi, the constitutional court rejected the political isolation law that would have banned Shafiq from running for president. It also stripped one third of parliament members of their seats, leading to the dissolution of the parliament, which was dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to Press TV.

The final official results of the presidential election are not expected to be announced until Thursday.