The good news? The Islamists did not do significantly better than in the first round of elections.
The bad news? The Islamists did not do significantly worse than in the first round of elections.
They’re still running at about 70%:
The Muslim Brotherhood party secured 39 percent of the vote, while the Salafi Al Nour party won 31 percent of the vote in the second stage of Egypt’s landmark post-Mubarak elections, according to unofficial results published on the website of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper on Sunday.The unofficial results for the second stage of elections for the lower house of the Egyptian parliament also showed that the secular, liberal Wafd party won 22 percent of the vote. Islamist parties won some 70 percent of the total vote, a similar result to the first stage of elections, which took place on November 28.
Meanwhile, the military is not exactly making the case for an alternative.
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