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Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy talks during a news conference in Cairo June 18, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy talks during a news conference in Cairo June 18, 2012
The party claims to have won 52.5 per cent of votes cast, based on a count of 97.6 per cent of the country's 13,100 polling stations. Khaled Qazzaz, a Muslim Brotherhood official, said Shafik had 47.5 per cent of the votes counted.
"There is no way Shafik can win," Qazzaz said, speaking at the headquarters of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. The party's website says it will shortly announce "the first statement of the first elected Egyptian president."
Approximately 50 million Egyptians are eligible to vote, but the turnout appears to be lower than in the first round, when 46 per cent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Over 20 million votes have been counted so far, Qazzaz said, with around 10.5 million going to Mursi, compared to 9.5 million for Shafiq.
Comment: If Greeks go to polls and it shakes the World Economy, do you think the United States will have to go in and blow them up for not voting in someone who stabilizes the World Economy? It's total nincompoopery. The World Economy is an illusion based on puppeteering that masks the complete depletion of resources. It's held together by the dull humdrum of our chemical lobotomized selves going back and forth, reacting with fear, being good consumers, holding up the illusion that all is well.
The closing few lines in this (3:48) video pretty much sum it up:
The article title says it all really: "to keep tensions high", which is exactly the anxiety those pulling the strings want you to feel.