Al Sisi wins the Egyptian presidential elections for the third time with 89.6%

Egypt’s current head of state, former Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has won his third consecutive presidential election with 89.6% of the vote and will remain in power for another six years, the electoral commission announced today.

In this context, the head of Egypt’s National Electoral Authority (NEA), Hazem Badawi, declared Al Sisi the winner of the election with “the highest turnout in Egypt’s history”, namely 66.8%, meaning 44 million 777 thousand 668 people took part in the elections of the 67 million 32 thousand 438 eligible voters.

Al Sisi received 39 million 702 thousand 451 votes (89.6%), while the second candidate with the most votes was Hazem Omar of the Republican People’s Party (RPP), with 1 million 986 thousand 352 (4.5%).

Omar was followed by Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (PES), with 1 million 776 thousand 952 votes (4%), and in last place was Abdel Sanad Yamama, head of the Wafd Party, with 822 thousand 606 votes. (1.9%).

Of the registered votes, 1.1% were considered invalid, Badawi said.

During the appearance, Badawi emphasized that “all categories of society participated” in these elections and that there were no “violations.”

“It is the lowest percentage of expenditure in the election campaign and an unprecedented neutrality,” he emphasized, amid a serious economic crisis in which the land of the Pharaohs was suffering.

These elections were marked by the fear of a possible expulsion of Palestinians to Egypt, but also by the general dissatisfaction of the population with the serious economic crisis the country is experiencing. Official inflation of almost 40% and loss of more than half of the Egyptian pound.

In fact, these elections were scheduled for 2024, but they were brought forward due to the serious and unpopular measures that the government must take to alleviate the crisis and meet the requirements of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) law.

The elections are the first since Al Sisi came to power in which four candidates from different backgrounds competed, but the remaining three candidates for Egypt’s presidency are largely unknown to the population.

In 2017, the current president guaranteed only two terms in power, but in 2019 he promoted a controversial constitutional reform to stay in power until 2030, after which he will no longer be able to contest elections.

Source: La Neta Neta

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