Cheers erupt in Cairo's Tahrir Square, after Islamist Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared Egypt's first democratically elected president. (Video:Reuters/Photo:Getty Images).
CAIRO—Egyptian election officials declared the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi the country's first freely elected president on Sunday, propelling an Islamist to power and marking another milestone in the Arab world's tumultuous democratic transition.
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Amr Nabil/Associated PressSupporters carried a poster of Mr. Morsi in Tahrir Square Sunday.
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It sets up what is likely to be an uneasy ruling alliance between two longtime rivals, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian military, which has been the country's backbone of power and has ruled Egypt since former President Hosni Mubarak stepped down last year.
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