Egyptian Sources: Mubarak Crony Will Be Declared Winner of Elections

On Sunday the Egyptian government will announce the winner of the country’s presidential elections. Government sources leaked that Ahmed Shafik will be declared the winner.
The Jerusalem Post reported:

Ahmed Shafik, who served as Egyptian prime minister under Hosni Mubarak, will be announced as the winner of the country’s presidential runoff election on Sunday evening, Egpytian daily Al-Ahram reported Friday, citing government sources.

Al-Ahram quoted a source in the current Egyptian government as saying Shafik will be declared victor with 50.7 percent of the vote.

Both Shafik and rival candidate Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood have previously declared themselves the winner of the runoff election.

The results of the election were originally scheduled to be announced on Thursday, but the announcement was delayed as Egypt’s electoral commission investigated charges of fraud lodged by both sides.

Egypt’s military rulers dismissed complaints from protesters on Friday that it was entrenching its rule and blamed the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsy for stirring up emotions that drew thousands onto Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

The Egyptian electoral commission will unveil presidential elections results on Sunday at 3pm (1pm GMT).

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   #1 June 23, 2012 at 9:10 pm

   JR commented:

   The alternative would be a Muslim Brotherhood crony. Methinks a Mubarek crony is better for the region, for Israel, for us, than would be a Muslim Brotherhood crony.

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   #2 June 23, 2012 at 9:32 pm

   Practical Jane commented:

   Mubarak kept the Brotherhood and other traditional Islamists at bay. He was able to honor peace with Israel. Hopefully “sources” are correct and Shafif wins the election…and then is able to keep his head and put the beast back in its cage.

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   #3 June 23, 2012 at 10:00 pm

   donh commented:

   Yes and Morsy is trying to bring the street mobs back into the Tahir square again…just what all the shop keepers , the tourist industry ,and people who work for a living want right now on top of all the economic Damage Obama’s little community organized rebellion has suffered .

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   #4 June 23, 2012 at 10:51 pm

   chachooga commented:

   it appears Obama’s state dept. finally has wised up and intervened to not allow the freakin’ Muslim Brotherhood to take the presidency…mabye it is the CIA or Israel…but someone ain’t havin it!

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   #8 June 23, 2012 at 11:48 pm

   exsanguine commented:

   I say this hesitantly: thank goodness for Egypt’s military flexing their muscle, squishing the islamists dreams and hopefully putting things back in order. If they don’t truly fix things though they will be right back where they started in a couple of years.

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   #10 June 24, 2012 at 5:24 am

   Rose commented:

   I hope it is true and the Muslim Brotherhood really did lose. It would be a horror is they were to win.

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   #11 June 24, 2012 at 8:59 am

   Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:

   Mubarack and is Generals, for all their faults, spent the last 30 years modernizing Egypt and making it a global economy and a worldwide tourist destination and tourism-based economy. And they did so, to a large extent, by keeping people like the Muslim Brotherhood in the shadows living in fear of arrest and imprisonment.

   The Military Leaders in Egypt understand clearly that whenever islam takes over, whether its a town, city, province, or country, the entire place quickly reverts to a hellhole where women are relegated to pack animal status, children are taught only one subject (islam) in the madrassas, and murderous thugs killing each other off on orders from rivial imams trying to expand their influence. As a direct result, tourism generally collapses.

   And this doesn’t even take into account what the Koranimals are commanded by the demonic entity known as “allah”, to do with all those unislamic “antiquities” they find lying around. Egyptian museums have already been looted and untold artifacts smashed and destroyed.

   The Suez Canal cannot fall under islamic control because too much worldwide shipping passes through there every day, and we all know how well muslims and seafaring ships get along on open waters.

   Perhaps the world has seen the writing on the wall with respect to Egypt and the muslim brotherhood. This may explain why there hasn’t been much of an outcry about the actions the Generals took last week kicking the Brotherhood out of Gov’t, disbanding Parliament and solidifying constitutional power.

   Even the Generals know that once the Brotherhood takes over, it’ll be centuries before a non-islamic ruling class achieves power again in Egypt, if ever.

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   #12 June 24, 2012 at 9:41 am

   archer52 commented:

   Good if true. MBs are bad, BAD people. Nothing occurs in a vacuum, and their attacks on Israel will cause trouble the likes we’ve not seen since 1973.

   War is coming to the Middle East and that idiot Obama started it.