CAIRO
An aide to Egypt's Ahmad Shafiq, last premier of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and a presidential hopeful, has rejected Muslim Brotherhood's "self-declared" victory in Egypt's first-ever democratic elections on Sunday.
"The Egyptian people will not accept the seizure of the presidential office just over a night," said Mohammad Baraka, head of Shafiq's election campaign team in an apparent response to Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammad Mursi's announcement that he won the presidential race.
Baraka said results from more than three thousand ballot boxes have yet to arrive, adding that Shafiq would get 51-53 percent of the votes and win the elections.
Mursi's Freedom and Justice Party said earlier that Mursi had toppled Shafiq by getting 12.7 million votes against 11.8 million votes for Shafiq with 97.66 percent of the boxes opened.
Forty-seven percent of Egypt's 51 million registered voters turned out at the ballot boxes in Sunday's election.
