Egypt protesters storm Shafiq’s Cairo office
Announcing the results earlier on Monday, Faruq Sultan, election commission chief, said: “No candidate won an outright majority, so according to Article 40 of the presidential election law, there will be a runoff between Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq.” The results exposed a deep rift within the nation, which now will have to choose between a Islamic conservative and a symbol of the hated Mubarak regime. Egyptians went to the polls on May 23 and 24 in the country’s first free presidential election made possible by the 2011 uprising led by pro-democracy activists. Sultan said Morsi had won with 24.7 per cent of the votes, slightly ahead of Shafiq with 23.6 per cent. Nasserist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi came third with 20.7 per cent, ahead of moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh with 17.4 per cent
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