Egypt braces for announcement of president

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By MAGGIE MICHAE

CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian police were ordered to confront any attempt to break the law with decisive force ahead of the announcement Sunday of a new president as soaring tensions in the country raised fears of a new outbreak of political violence.

The electoral commission was to announce the results of last weekend's presidential runoff at 3 p.m. local time (1300 GMT, 9 a.m. EDT). The results have been delayed for several days, giving way to wild rumors, speculation and anxiety about back room deals and suspected interference by the ruling military council in determining the outcome in favor of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's last Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq.

A swelling crowd of thousands gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square in sweltering midday heat awaiting the announcement. They were a mix of the mostly liberal, secular youth groups that drove last year's uprising and supporters of Shafiq's Islamist challenger, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The announcement of the president was supposed to be the end of Egypt's post-uprising transition to democracy. However the military made a series of last minute moves that stripped the office of president of most of its major powers and kept those powers concentrated in the hands of the military. A court ruling a few days before that dissolved the freely elected parliament that was dominated by the Islamist group Muslim Brotherhood.

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An Egyptian man wears a hand-made hat with a picture of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 23, 2012. Egypt will release results from disputed presidential elections Sunday, the country?s top elections commission official said _ a highly anticipated announcement that will put an end to the immediate uncertainty about who is the official winner, but will almost certainly see the power struggles between Islamists, the military and other factions continue. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

[dipsydoodle]

1. As he's now been talking for half an hour

without saying there is any change in the result. I can't see will be any change. He's simply justifying the fix.

[clang1]

2. Nothing new yet eh? n/t

[dipsydoodle]

3. I was wrong

Mursi won. Good result.

[clang1]

4. Hmmmm

I have seen no news yet here. Pfffft. Nothing in Google either. If true, the military did exactly as I (they) said they would and if Mursi is what the Egyptian people decided, so be it then and I hope for the best.

[dipsydoodle]

6. I was watching it live

[clang1]

7. Can you send a link?

Live on television or on the net? Is it 3pm there?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/jun/24/egypt-election-results-live


Damn not even the Al jazeera feed is working


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/24/watch-live-egyptians-in-tahir-square-await-results-of-presidential-election/

[dipsydoodle]

8. What - to my tv

Was watching Sky News. If you go to the BBC News website I'm sure they have it. Sky have probably got it too. Incase you'not realised I'm UK.

[clang1]

13. Hi. Yes, I know you are in England

Will check Sky and BBC.

[B2G]

11. Good result if you're a fundie man

If you're a woman...tragic.

[dipsydoodle]

5. Check out Tahir Square.

Great to see them all celebrating instead of displaying anger.

[unreadierLizard]

9. And they'll probably be sending the women back home after beating them for being out with a man in

public. Sad times.

[clang1]

10. Nonsense saying this right now n/t

[unreadierLizard]

12. The Muslim Brotherhood

now rule Egypt.

I can guarantee they'll start enforcing Sharia law, posturing against Israel and the like.

I just can't understand the people of the Middle East. They trade homegrown dictators for Islamist ones?

Logic. It escapes me.

[clang1]

15. They decide....

We either support Democracy, or we don't. I support Democracy. I don't want a theocratic government either and this does not mean that there is going to be one. Speaking of fundies upstream in the thread, well we have enough of them in our own elected government and we are not a Theocracy yet are?

[unreadierLizard]

16. We don't have

people who have openly called for Sharia law, which is inherently oppressive and violent towards women and those who don't agree with you.

[clang1]

17. Lol ok. Only Muslims suppress women under the guise of religion.

Come on.

[unreadierLizard]

18. I don't see Christians or Jews

stoning women to death in the modern age over adultery or being out with a man not related to her.

Yes, other religions can and do curtail women's rights. But not to the extreme Islam does - at least, not anymore.

[clang1]

19. Oh good GOD

No but I know about an American woman ran over by a damn bulldozer somewhere in the World in the name of religion and a lot more bullshit.... Come on.

All extremists suck no matter the religion. I am HAPPY, now all we can do is hopefully be a positive influence instead of an exploitive one. Just like someone else has said, time to put away the differences between us and focus on the commonalities between us as people. It's that damn simple imo. WE all are not the extremists, and it is high time we stop letting extremists dictate what we do. Whether they be religious extremists or political extremists. I am sick of both. Common people, the people, don't want all the bullshit. It's that simple.

Don't carry their water for them.

[clang1]

20. Not a goddamn thing on std American TV right now where I'm at

Typical. And I am in a large city too.