Landslide win for Egyptian leader

[Matt25]

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4231338.stm

** Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has won a comprehensive victory in the country’s first multi-candidate presidential election. **Mr Mubarak, who has held power for 24 years, won 88.6% of votes, Egyptian election officials confirmed…Turnout was low, with just 23% of 32 million voters heading to the polls…

According to monitors and opposition parties, the voting on Wednesday was marred by widespread abuses and irregularities, mainly by Mr Mubarak’s National Democratic Party (NDP) and by the organisers… However, groups monitoring the vote have said that the abuses would not have affected the overall result

            BBC Cairo correspondent Heba Saleh says it was always expected that Hosni Mubarak would win this election. The only surprise, she says, seems to be that the government papers are acknowledging the low turnout. In the past the headlines always blared that Egyptians had voted in huge numbers.

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This would be freedom on the march I guess