Egypt’s military warns protesters over presidential election result

Brotherhood supporters fear that the delay is intended to enable the
commission to find a way of disqualifying enough voters to ensure it can
give victory to the former general and Mubarak-era prime minister, Ahmed
Shafiq, who trailed by just short of a million votes, according to most
unofficial counts. Mr Shafiq and his advisers have given credence to this
theory by saying they are confident that he will be declared the winner.

The deadlock between Egypt’s two strongest forces has raised doubts about the
prospects for consensual democracy, though some see possible compromise, if
Mr Morsi does become president.

The Brotherhood has unveiled a new coalition of secular activists and writers
who said they were supporting Mr Morsi in his battle with the military. Even
if he is named the winner, he will have to fight the army’s overwhelming
constitutional power to exert any authority.

In return for the support of groups such as the April 6 movement, which did
much to organise last year’s revolution, Mr Morsi promised to appoint a
unity government led by a non-Brotherhood prime minister. “This is not
about supporting Morsi,” Tareq al-Khoul, a member of April 6 said. “This
is about supporting the revolution.”

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