Andre Pain/European Pressphoto Agency
Supporters of Mohamed Morsi,
the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for president, gathered in Tahrir
Square in Cairo to await the declaration of a winner on Sunday.
CAIRO — Election regulators named Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood the winner of Egypt’s
first competitive presidential elections, handing the Islamist group a
symbolic triumph and a new weapon in its struggle for power with the
ruling military council.
After an hourlong speech in which he detailed dozens of specific
inquiries down to the ballot-box level, the chairman of the election
commission, Farouk Sultan, announced that Mr. Morsi had won 51.7 percent
of the runoff vote completed last weekend. The other candidate, the
former general Ahmed Shafik, won 48.3 percent.
