埃及推遲宣佈總統決選最終結果

Egypt's Election Commission says it has delayed Thursday's planned announcement of the results of a runoff presidential vote while it continues to review appeals from the two candidates, hiking tension as allegations of fraud mounted.

The commission said Wednesday that judges are still looking into some 400 complaints of alleged campaign violations and disputed vote counting submitted by Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, and his rival, former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.

No new date to announce a winner was given.

On top of the potentially explosive election dispute looms renewed uncertainty over the latest health scare of 84-year-old former President Hosni Mubarak.

The state news agency reported that Mubarak was near death and put on a respirator after suffering a stroke. He was transferred to a military hospital from the Cairo prison hospital.

Security officials said Wednesday the ousted leader was in a coma and off life support and that his heart and other vital organs were functioning. A later report in The New York Times quoted a lawyer for the ex-leader as saying Mubarak had only fallen down in the prison bathroom.

埃及選舉委員會說，目前正在審查來自兩位總統候選人的申訴，而且有關選舉舞弊的投訴急劇增多，局勢非常緊張，因此決定推遲星期四宣佈總統決選最終結果的計劃。

埃及選舉委員會星期三表示，法官們正在審查有關競選違規的大約400樁投訴以及穆斯林兄弟會候選人穆爾西及其對手、前總理沙菲克分別提交的點票結果。

選舉委員會尚未決定宣佈總統決選獲勝者的日期。

就在總統決選使埃及局勢變得具有爆炸性之際，現年84歲的前總統穆巴拉克健康狀況惡化，更增加了埃及局勢的不確定性。

埃及國家媒體報道說，穆巴拉克突患中風，已經瀕臨死亡，目前靠呼吸機維持生命。穆巴拉克已從開羅監獄醫院轉至一家軍醫院。

埃及安全官員星期三說，穆巴拉克處於昏迷狀態，但已經脫離生命維持系統，心臟和其他主要器官都有功能。紐約時報援引穆巴拉克的一位律師的話說，穆巴拉克只是在監獄衛生間內跌倒。