Egypt’s President Elect’s Supporters Rally For Control of Government as Military Role Questioned

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Egypt press hails Morsi win

Egypt’s President Elect Mulls Cabinet Appointees. The Egyptian press on Monday hailed the victory of the country’s “first civilian president”, the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, with some newspapers saying that the “revolution” that toppled Hosni Mubarak had defeated the holdovers of the old regime. Morsi won 51.7 percent of the vote in a hotly disputed.

Egypt’s Morsi mulls cabinet amid Tahrir sit-in

Egypt’s president-elect Mohamed Morsi began selecting a new government on Monday as his supporters pursued a sit-in to pressure the ruling military to hand over full powers to the Islamist. After a tight race in which Morsi was forced to reach out to pro-democracy groups, the former Muslim Brotherhood.