(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Speaking to FNA in Cairo on Monday, the former Head of the Union of Egyptian Judges Zakaria Abdel-Aziz said that nothing disrupted the democratic process of voting in the referendum on Saturday.
He noted that the army and police forces were in charge of the security of committees in a bid to stand up to any possible violence, reiterating that no "rigging occurred in the course of voting and the executive committee have not registered any fraud".
Responding to a question on his predictions of the second round of voting, Abdel-Aziz said that the ballot boxes "will say the last word and nothing can be predicted at this moment, but now 57.4 percent of the voters have agreed with the draft constitution".
Egypt's opposition National Salvation Front coalition said it would "not recognize any unofficial result," and would wait for the formal tally after next Saturday's second round of voting.
With the first round of voting over, Egypt's ruling Freedom and Justice Party declared Sunday that citizens had given their thumbs-up to the draft constitution.
Tallies say that 57 percent of Egyptian voters said yes to the referendum on the draft constitution.
The vote was held Saturday in 10 of the country's 27 provinces, including Cairo and the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city.
Voting in the remaining provinces will be held December 22.
The brotherhood had said that some 32 percent of over 26 million Egyptian registered voters participated in Saturday's poll. Egypt's remaining 25 million voters, mostly from conservative rural regions, will cast ballots next week.
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