By Stephen Kalin
CAIRO – The announcement of the final results of last weekend’s presidential runoff elections between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafiq have been delayed, according to Reuters. The election committee was supposed to declare a winner on Thursday, but now claims that it needs more time to consider appeals from the candidates.
In polarized post-revolutionary Egypt, the announcement of either candidate as the winner has the potential to stir unrest and possibly violence. Anxieties about the return of the Mubarak regime’s brutal repression are just as strong here as worries of the implementation of an Islamic state. While it’s far from clear that the election of either Shafiq or Morsi would lead to these respective scenarios, speculation and fear about them characterize much of the popular discourse. more
CAIRO – The announcement of the final results of last weekend’s presidential runoff elections between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and former Mubarak prime minister Ahmed Shafiq have been delayed, according to Reuters. The election committee was supposed to declare a winner on Thursday, but now claims that it needs more time to consider appeals from the candidates.
In polarized post-revolutionary Egypt, the announcement of either candidate as the winner has the potential to stir unrest and possibly violence. Anxieties about the return of the Mubarak regime’s brutal repression are just as strong here as worries of the implementation of an Islamic state. While it’s far from clear that the election of either Shafiq or Morsi would lead to these respective scenarios, speculation and fear about them characterize much of the popular discourse. more
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