CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt's
constitution was passed
with 63.8 percent voter
support in the two-stage
referendum that ended last
weekend, the national
electoral commission said on
Tuesday.
Turnout was 32.9 percent of
Egypt's total 52 million
voters, the president of the
commission, Samir Abul
Maati, told a news
conference in Cairo.
The figures confirmed those
given by President Mohamed
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood,
which had backed the new
charter.
Abul Maati rejected
opposition claims that fake
judges supervised some of
the polling — one of several
allegations of polling fraud
the opposition National
Salvation Front made after
each leg of the referendum
held December 15 and 22.
The charter, and Morsi's
determination to hold the
referendum without building
consensus, provoked weeks
of protests, some of which
turned violent.
The Front has said it will not
cease its struggle, raising the
prospect of prolonged
instability in the Arab world's
most populous nation.
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