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By Yasmine Saleh
CAIRO (Reuters) - Votes have been counted in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes that will determine how quickly Egypt can hold elections after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow, the judicial oversight body said on Sunday.
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By Yasmine Saleh
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Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:51am EDT
CAIRO (Reuters) - Votes have been counted in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes that will determine how quickly Egypt can hold elections after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow, the judicial oversight body said on Sunday.
The amendments were approved by a majority of voters in five of Egypt's 29 governorates, a state television channel reported. The final result is expected later on Sunday.
Millions of Egyptians flocked to the polls on Saturday to vote in the country's first ballot in living memory whose outcome was not a foregone conclusion.
Approval of the amendments will allow Egypt's military rulers to move along the path they have charted toward parliamentary and presidential elections that will allow them to hand power back to a civilian, elected government.
The military has said a parliamentary election could happen as early as September, with a presidential election after that.
Rejection of the amendments would force a change in plan that will possibly delay the elections.
The reforms were backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, a well-organized Islamist group, and remnants of deposed President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party, which had called on voters to support the changes.
Secular reform groups and prominent advocates of change including presidential candidates Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa had rejected the amendments, arguing that Egypt needs an entirely new constitution.
An early election is seen favoring the Brotherhood and remnants of the Mubarak administration. Decades of oppression under Mubarak crushed other groups, which are arguing for a longer interim period to allow political life to recover.
"All the polling stations in Cairo and the governorates ... have finished the voting and the counting process and all documents and results have been delivered," Mohammed Ahmed Attiyah, the head of the supreme judicial committee supervising the voting, said in a statement.
(Writing by Edmund Blair and Tom Perry; editing by Andrew Roche)
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