At long last Ikhwanul Muslimeen is coming to power:
Islamist Leader Likely To Face Former PM in Egyptian Runoff
With votes still being counted, the Muslim Brotherhood appears assured of one of the two spots in the presidential faceoff.
By Abby Ohlheiser | Posted Friday, May 25, 2012, at 1:04 PM ET
Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate, Mohammed Mursi (L), and former prime minister and presidential candidate, Ahmed Shafiq (R), look likely to face each other in a run-off election for the Egyptian presidency
Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/GettyImages
With only partial results available Friday, it looks like Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi will face either a leftist candidate or Ahmed Shafiq, former President Mubarak's final prime minister, in the second round of voting for Egypt's presidency.
The Muslim Brotherhood predicted that Morsi, who by all counts won the most votes, would run against Shafiq, according to the Associated Press, and most analysts seem to at least tentatively agree. But that won't be final until officials finish counting ballots in Cairo and Gaza some time late Friday or early Saturday. Currently, the race for second is between Shafiq and Hamdeen Sabahi, commonly described as a "darkhorse" candidate from the left who was the clear winner in the coastal city of Alexandria.
Should Shafiq take second place, as seems likely but not certain, Egyptians will face a vote between an Islamist candidate representing a party that already dominates the country's parliament, and a loyalist to the Mubarak regime, making the second round of voting June 16-17 a choice between two highly-divisive candidates and scenarios. Some analysts, like Juan Cole, believe that such a choice would likely spark a new round of protests in the country. Cole notes that Shafiq has "ominously promised to crack down hard on 'destructive demonstrations'" as part of his candidacy.
The New York Times explains that Ahmed Shafik, a former air force general, ran on a "law-and-order" platform against the possibility of an Islamist takeover of the country's government. The country's Christian minority—about 10 percent of the population—voted overwhelmingly for Shafik, despite previous tensions between the military and Christians in Egypt.
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