Mohamed Mursi, first civilian president and Islamist in Egypt

Engineer Mohamed Mursi succeed the ousted Hosni Mubarak.The historic victory is the arrival of the president's most populous country in the Arab world's first civilian in six decades and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood after 84 years of persecution and semi-clandestine . The Electoral Commission announced on Sunday his victory a week after the first free presidential elections in Egypt. Mursi achieved 13,230,131 votes (51.73%) against the former general and prime minister last dictatorship, the septuagenarian Ahmed Shafik, who has won 12,347,380 votes (48.27%). A result set that shows the enormous polarization that has marked these elections, held last weekend. At 60 years, Islamist - PhD in Space Science in the United States- assumes a presidency with limited functions after the dissolution of parliament dominated by his group and the approval of some amendments to the constitutional declaration that restrict their scope for action and leave hands of the military junta legislative and budgetary powers. After a long and tedious speech, the committee chairman, Farooq Sultan, announced the result as well as participation in the presidential runoff, which was 26,420,763, 51.85% of the nearly 51 million Egyptians called to the polls . The chairman of the Electoral Commission said also that reviewed challenges to the results in just a hundred polling stations of more than 13,000 in which the Egyptians could cast a ballot. The Electoral Commission decision can not be challenged or appealed by the applicant, to be ultimately responsible for the elections. The announcement of the results was scheduled for last Thursday, but the commission postponed it, arguing that it needed more time to study and complaints.

Explosion of joy in Tahrir

The tens of thousands of people gathered in Tahrir Square Cairo have erupted with joy to announce officially the result. The applause and shouts of joy, accompanied by flares, flooded the famous square in the time when Sultan Farooq, chairman of the Electoral Commission, revealed that Mursi had won the presidential elections. Thousands of supporters of the Brotherhood on Tuesday are camped in the square , the epicenter of the popular uprising in response to the decree of the military. Mursi and claimed victory on Monday based on voting records and confirmed by the judges and collected by its network of delegates. Confident of victory, Mursi, who entered the presidential race in the last minute as an alternative to real factotum of the group, the Shater-Khairat already met this week with revolutionary movements and other political forces and has announced an agreement to form a national coalition government. The Islamist is also committed to put in the vice to "a woman, a Copt or a former presidential candidate" and to appoint as prime minister "an independent public figure." Among the new president's powers include appointing and dismissing the 'premier' and his cabinet and veto laws made ​​by the military to hold new parliamentary elections expected later this year.

Transfer of powers

The new 'rais' take office later this month in "a great ceremony," according to members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, but will have to live with the military leadership headed by Hussein Tantawi until the end of a chaotic and complex transition policy. After confirming the victory of the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, the head of the military junta that runs provisionally Egypt has conveyed his congratulations, according to Efe. The military leadership has repeatedly stated that the executive will transfer to the new President left the polls before next June 30, although in the last week held a tense pulse with the Muslim Brotherhood. Last Friday, the military junta launched stern warnings to the Muslim Brotherhood to abide by the decisions of the courts, as the dissolution of Parliament , and not sow "division" in the country, while the Islamists responded by taking to the streets again tens of thousands of his followers. Mursi also congratulated the Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal Ganzuri, who will present his resignation to the new president in the coming days for this to form his government. These gestures show that both the military brass as designated by the Executive accept the election results.