egypt-final-presidential-elections-2012

The Carter Center
Presidential Election in Egypt
by the FJP to influence the results of the electoral
process in violation of the law. 171 Others argued that
the release of this information was legal, since it was
based on information in the
public domain. In the future,
the election management
body might consider releasing
clearly identified preliminary
results in order to diminish
speculation on the results by
interested parties.
The Carter Center
strongly urges the future
EMB to improve the timeliness
of the announcement
At the end of his speech, Judge Sultan
announced the victory of Mohamed
Morsi with 13,230,131 votes, or
51.73 percent of the valid votes, to
Ahmed Shafiq’s 12,347,380, or
48.27 percent of the valid votes.
of the election results and to publish the vote count
results at the polling-station level. The future EMB
may wish to consider issuing results at different stages
of the process as preliminary
(the initial tabulation of
results) and provisional
(awaiting the outcome of any
appeals that may affect the
results) before announcing
the final results. In this way,
speculation can be dampened,
without compromising
the authority of the electoral
authorities on the final
outcome.
171 See Article 53, Law Regulating the Presidential Election, which
penalizes people who commit an act intending to disrupt or suspend the
enforcement of PEC decisions under the law. Article 41 of the same law
authorizes the PEC to make the official announcement of election results.
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