abol fotouh, and mr. saleem ayla wa, a lesser-known islamist candidate who garnered roughly 6% of the vote. between them, they won roughly 35% of the votes. we also see the sharp shift in the political map in the remnants of the national democratic party, which was the ruling party during the mubarak era. the ndn the parliamentary elections won virtually no seats and did very badly in those elections. now the remnants of the old ndp network seem to have mobilized for a highly effective campaign in support of general ahmed shafiq. so we see here -- and in addition to that, we see -- and this was a remarkable surprise -- the socialist candida candida candidate hamdeen sabahy really turned out to be the dark horse in this case. he ran as a clear leftist agenda. all of the polls seem to have dismissed the fact that he would do well in this election. but very surprisingly, he came in third garnering roughly 21% of the vote. and also winning in areas that have been known to be traditional strongholds of the mus

this is abdel moneim aboul fotouh who himself resigned from brotherhood when he decided to run in thelection. >> we need to move forward. i'm calling upon the national political forces to obligate president mohamed morsi to achieve his commitment. he vows to achieve them and i am congratulating him on his victory in calling on forces to push him to fulfill his promises. we do not expect only televised speeches, but we need him to fill out fell -- fulfill his commitments. he needs no links to the muslim brotherhood. >> your response? abdel moneim aboul fotouh was with the brotherhood, but quit. >> he was a leading member, one that helped a rise the resurgence of the brotherhood on campuses in the 1970's and early 1980's. he left the group early last year -- last year when he decided to run. he has since come into confrontation with the leadership of the brotherhood and has been seen as really a candidate in the spirit of the revolution supported by a lot of revolutionaries, had a campaign that was a rainbow coalition that had liberal circulars altar of conservatives the lash secularist

fotouh who broke off from the muslim brotherhood about a year ago to run as an independent candidate. the high elections council announced the final results of the first round yesterday, and as greg mentioned, there have been some very interesting developments in the last 24 hours with demonstrations in tahrir square, the torching of ahmed shafiq's campaign headquarters. so i think what we have now is a very highly dynamic situation heading into the runoff of these elections. so what i thought i'd do just to set the scene is talk not about the candidates but about the broad context of these elections and what we can expect to see in the second round or in the run off to these elections, but also what they signify for egypt's post-transition politics. the significance, of course, of these elections, as greg mentioned, it really is the first time in egypt that we have a real contestation for political power in the office of the head of state of the egyptian republic. that is a truly historic development. these elections also mark the end of the transition, the postrevolutionary transiti