Official: Mohamed Morsi is the new president of Egypt.

[DJKeefy]

Farouq Sultan, the head of Egypt's election commission, has just announced that Mohammed Morsi is the winner of the country’s presidential runoff with a total of 13,230,131 votes. His opponent, Ahmed Shafiq, received a total of 12,347,380 votes.



Screen shot above of Al Jazeera broadcasting live above Tahrir Square minutes after Mohammed Morsi was declared the official winner of Egypt's presidential election

[Sharm4me]

Who thinks he's the right man for the job? I don't know anyone that voted for either of the candidates

[LovelyLadyLux]

I know there was a vote tally meaning I know I read the number of votes for each candidate. Does anybody know what percentage of eligible voters turned out for this election?