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Celebrations in Egypt as Mursi wins presidency

Tens of thousands celebrate on Cairo’s streets as Egypt announces Mohamed Mursi as the country’s first democratically elected president.

The 60-year-old Muslim Brotherhood candidate took 51.7 per cent of the total in last weekend’s run-off election, beating secular candidate Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister in deposed Hosni Mubarak’s regime.

As the news was announced, tens of thousands of Egyptians in Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted in wild joy, turning the square into a roaring sea of flags and chanting.

“This is a victory from God,” one man said. “I can’t put my feelings into words.”

“I would like to thank my God who leads us to this landslide and clear victory,” said another.

Mr Mursi’s supporters have camped out for days, certain that he was the winner but suspicious that the ruling military council would deny him the presidency.

Speaking on television hours later, Mr Mursi thanked the “martyrs” of the uprising for the victory and stressed “the revolution continues”.

He added that national unity would be “the only way out of these difficult times”.

“I will be a president for all Egyptians,” he said.

“I call on you, great people of Egypt … to strengthen our national unity.”

Both candidates claimed victory last week, and tensions heightened after the electoral commission delayed announcing the official outcome.

The result could help to avert further mass protests or violence, although Brotherhood officials vowed to continue protests against recent moves by the ruling military council to cement its power.

Mursi campaign spokesman Gehad el Haddad says the win is just the start for the Muslim Brotherhood.

“This is a huge responsibility to bear,” he said.

“We ask God and we ask all the Egyptians to bear witness to this historic day, in which Egypt has reached the pinnacle of its revolution, and we start on the very long and not so easy task of rebuilding our nation.”

This election result would have been unthinkable even 18 months ago before the uprising.

For decades under the former Mubarak regime, the Muslim Brotherhood was banned from elections, and Mr Mursi himself spent time in jail.

But while Tahrir Square celebrates Mr Mursi’s triumph, millions more Egyptians, among them Christians and secular Muslims, have been left in despair, especially those convinced Mr Shafiq was the rightful winner.

“Egypt has been sold to the Americans,” screamed one woman in a rival rally on the streets of Cairo. “Congratulations to America.”

Shafiq supporters who gathered to hear the result with his campaign team in the suburbs of Cairo were devastated by the result.

Some women screamed and others cried as several men held their heads between their hands in despair.

Mr Shafiq had alleged the Mursi camp was guilty of vote rigging.

“It’s a very sad day for Egypt. I don’t think Mursi is the winner. I’m very sad that Egypt will be represented by this man and this group,” said one Shafiq supporter.

The military regime has promised to hand over power to the new president by July 1.

But the ruling council recently dissolved the new parliament, elected earlier this year, and dominated by Muslim Brotherhood candidates, and says it will retain legislative power until new parliamentary elections can be held.

It is also unclear how much power the new president will really have.

Military leaders have curtailed some of his powers, leaving many Egyptians sceptical that the generals will ever hand over the political reins at all.

SOURCE:Radio Australia

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