Egypt Newspapers Hail Mubarak Re-Election
Pro-government newspapers on Friday trumpeted President Hosni Mubarak’s re-election victory after preliminary results showed he swept Egypt’s first contested race for his job. The opposition press, meanwhile, highlighted the alleged irregularities that marred the vote but still hailed the first contested election for president as the birth of democracy in Egypt. “The people have woken up and they are not going to go back to sleep,” wrote the editor of the opposition Wafd newspaper.Full Story