A polarized country but clear in results for the first free presidential elections in Egypt, Mahammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood wins by a narrow margin over Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister from Hosni Mubarak regime.
People took to the streets to listen the announcement of the winner and are having rocking celebrations after the announcement. 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. With this, Mr. Morsi is the first Islamist to lead a nation in Arab state. But the World have to wait and see how the road to democracy unfolds in this country 16 months after the outser of President Hosni Mubarak.
This is also a great moment for all engineers to have another engineer in the supreme post. Mr Morsi is an American-educated engineer who received his doctoral degree at the University of Southern California.
