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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He and his father, Amr, who also voted for Mr Shafiq in the middle-class
district of Mohandessin, said they preferred a Shafiq victory because if the
Muslim Brotherhood won it would not be possible to protest at all.
“Shafiq is a person,” Mr Samra senior said. “You can speak
against a person. But if you speak against the Brotherhood you are speaking
against the word of God, and you can’t challenge that. It’s like Iran.”
Analysts and western diplomats believe that Mr Morsi, with his strong backing
from the ordinary middle classes and the mosques, would win a fairly
conducted contest. Ahmed Abdul-Ati, secretary-general of his campaign,
claimed yesterday that an opinion poll for a semi-official think-tank had
predicted a 69 per cent vote for Mr Morsi, but its publication had been
blocked.
However, the Brotherhood claims that the army is buying votes – accusations
countered by supporters of Mr Shafiq, who point to the Brotherhood’s strong
record of social support to poorer areas as a form of bribe.
The French-style two-round system has brought about a widely condemned result
in which the two rivals in the run-off obtained less than half the votes in
the first round between them, and are undoubtedly the two most distrusted of
all the major candidates.
The votes of liberals, Leftists and independent Islamists who led last year’s
revolution were split between three other leading candidates.
Leading opposition activists called for “revolutionaries” to boycott
the poll, or even better to spoil their ballot as a deliberate protest – a
campaign that gathered steam after Thursday’s ruling.
“Look, my hands are clean,” said Hossam Hamza, 30, standing outside
the same polling station as the Samras, referring to the absence of
ink-stains with which citizens’ fingers are marked to stop them voting
twice. “If we can get two to three million people to join the boycott
that would be good.”
He said that the military would win either way when the votes are counted at
the close of polling today. “If Morsi wins, there will be no transition
of power. If Shafiq wins, it’s a power transition within the army.”
The dissolution of parliament means its powers return for the time being to
the military council. There is as yet no constitution outlining what powers
the newly-elected president will have, and many assume that they will be
restricted by the military if Mr Morsi wins.
But if victory goes to Mr Shafiq, who once described Mr Mubarak as his “role
model”, there will be little to stop the renewed exercise of military
power other than more street protests.
“Shafiq will have the support of all the force that surrounded Mubarak,”
said Sayed Mahfouz, a lawyer who voted for Mr Morsi. “But if Morsi
wins, he will be handed ‘power’ but not real power until there is a
constitution. Then they will just limit the power of the president.”
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