The Presidential Elections Commission will announce on Monday afternoon the first-round results of the presidential poll, an official said, after early counts showed it would go to a runoff between the Muslim Brotherhood candidate and the last prime minister of Hosni Mubarak.
State-run news agency MENA said on Monday that the commission would hold a conference to announce full details of the electoral process, including the number of valid and invalid votes, the voter turnout, the votes won by each of the 13 candidates, and the names of the top two runners who will compete in the runoffs slated for 16 and 17 June.
Four candidates have complained about the voting, including Hamdeen Sabbahi, the leftist candidate shown in third place.
"Today we announce the results of the first round of the presidential election," Hatem Bagato, the secretary general of the electoral committee, told Reuters.
Asked if there would be a runoff, he said: "That would be part of the result announcement we will make today."
Figures from state media and party campaigns put Mohamed Morsy, a colorless Brotherhood insider, in a runoff with Shafiq, a bluff ex-air force chief who has sworn to restore security.
Sabbahi, who came in close third, challenged his placing.
“We have information that conscripts voted illegally,” he told supporters in Cairo on Saturday.
Late Sunday, the elections commission convened to review challenges against the results, filed by four candidates: Shafiq, Sabbahi, former Muslim Brotherhood member Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and former Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
Preliminary results from governorate electoral committees show Morsy won 5,602,547 or 24.8 percent of the votes, followed by Shafiq with 5,404,121 or 23.9 percent, Sabbahi with 4,634,506 or 20.5 percent, Abouel Fotouh with 3,943,931 or 17.4 percent, and former Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa with 2,532,267 or 11.2 percent.
Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was confident overall about the process, though Carter Center monitors noted several irregularities, such as the lack of access in the final tallying of the nationwide results.
