#Egypt constitution approved by 98 percent of voters, despite low turnout
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Pro-Sisi Egyptians celebrate in Tahrir square after a new constitution was approved on January 18, 2014 in the capital Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Khaled)
Egyptian voters have approved a new constitution by 98.1 percent, the elections chief said Saturday, in what the government declared a popular endorsement of the army’s overthrow of president Mohammed Mursi, despite low voter turnout. The result of the Tuesday-Wednesday vote had never been in doubt, as Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists boycotted it, but the authorities wanted a large turnout in the first democratic test since the ouster in July. read (...)