Official results in Egypt's first free presidential election aren't expected until Tuesday, but according to unofficial tallies published by the Egyptian news media, with 90% of the vote counted so far, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammad Morsi, is leading and will compete in a June run-off against either Ahmad Shafiq, currently in second place, or Hamdeen Sabahi.
Egyptians flocked to the polls on the second day of voting Thursday. In one of Cairo’s poorest neighborhoods, voters brazenly declared their support for Sabahi, the Nasserite candidate who has vowed to be the president of Egypt’s poor.