More uncertainty in Egypt amid delayed vote results, questions over Mubarak's ... - Washington Post
CAIRO — Egyptian election officials said Wednesday that they would not announce formal results of last weekend’s landmark presidential vote as scheduled on Thursday, a decision that heightened the nation’s sense of uncertainty.
The election commission said it would need additional time to examine more than 400 complaints lodged by the two candidates, Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister under Hosni Mubarak. The election officials did not provide a new announcement date.
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Security officials say Hosni Mubarak is in a coma but off of life support and his heart and other vital organs are functioning.
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The delay came as Egyptians grappled with conflicting reports on Mubarak’s health. The cycle began late Tuesday with frenzied reports of the former president being pronounced “clinically dead.” By Wednesday afternoon, his attorney was saying that the diagnosis was a false rumor spread by state media.
The military-led government provided no official updates on Mubarak’s condition Wednesday. Security officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to news agencies, variously described him as in a coma, using a ventilator and recovering from a stroke.
In an interview, Mubarak attorney Yosri Abdel Razek disputed those descriptions. He said the 84-year-old was in stable condition after being transferred to a military hospital Tuesday because of a worsening head wound caused by a fall in a prison bathroom.
Abdel Razek said Mubarak,
