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maddezmom

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Sat Jun 23, 2012, 08:59 AM Jun 2012

Egypt election results now expected Sunday [View all]

Source: CBC

The head of Egypt's election commission says official results from the disputed presidential runoff vote will be released Sunday.

Farouk Sultan, the head of the Supreme Presidential Election Commission, confirmed the timing on Saturday.

Results of runoff vote between the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Morsi and a Mubarak-era politician Ahmed Shafiq were postponed last week as both campaigns claimed victory.

Demonstrators continued their sit-in into the fifth successive day on Saturday in protest against the disbanding of the Islamist-dominated parliament last week and calling for military leaders to rescind a constitutional declaration granting the generals sweeping powers and stripping the next president of much of his authority.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/06/23/egypt-election-protests.html

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