Mursi supporters.
Mohamed Mursi, reportedly with a little help from vote buying, is in the lead.
Mursi worked as a professor at California State University; Mursi is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is believed to be run by the CIA and its friends; Mursi favours 'the free market'.
Mursi and his boss?
Mursi and his boss?
The results, in the the first round of voting:
Mohamed Mursi, conservative member of the Muslim Brotherhood, 25 percent
Shafiq
Hamdeen Sabahy, left-wing fan of former president Nasser, 21 percent.
Abdel-Moneim Fotouh, former Moslem Brotherhood leader, 20 percent
Fotouh believes the attacks on 9/11 were a U.S. government conspiracy.
He has said that a Christian should be able to run for president. (Egypt Presidential Contender: 9/11 a US Conspiracy)
Mursi
Total voter turnout was 41%
Two villages in Upper Egypt boycotted elections to protest months-long shortages of bread and butane gas.
In the Upper Egyptian Qena governorate, Al-Ahram correspondent Mahmoud Dessouky reported a clear lack of enthusiasm among voters.
"There's little enthusiasm for voting again since the majority of people here are very poor, and these affluent candidates have little in common with ordinary people," Dessouky said.
Dick Verton
The Cairo-based Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) reported vote buying in seven governorates by campaigners for Mursi, Shafiq and Fotouh. (Egyptian presidential elections, Day 2: Turnout and trends)
The Cairo-based Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) reported vote buying in seven governorates by campaigners for Mursi, Shafiq and Fotouh. (Egyptian presidential elections, Day 2: Turnout and trends)
Egyptian by rsaslan
Since the CIA toppled Mubarak, poverty in Egypt has greatly increased.
Egypt's economy, seen as successful under Mubarak, is now failing.
Egypt economy in crisis as presidential vote looms
"There are many people with no work now in Egypt, or with work but no salaries," says Wasfy Amin, of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce.
Amin fears that his own business will run out of money within a year.
Pierangelo Gramignola
The Egyptian government is presently having to borrow very large sums of money at dangerously high interest rates.
The Egyptian government is presently having to borrow very large sums of money at dangerously high interest rates.
Under Mubarak, the economic growth rate was 7 percent in the 2007/08 fiscal year.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/International/2012/May-17/173644-egypt-economy-in-crisis-as-presidential-vote-looms.ashx#ixzz1vrToa5Fy
The Egyptian Midhat Mursi is a chemist and alleged top bomb maker for al Qaeda and was part of Osama bin Laden's inner circle.
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