Egyptians continue to cast their ballots on the second day of the Egyptian presidential elections, in which four candidates are competing, most notably current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. While the elections continue for three days inside the country, they are widely believed to be decided in favor of Sisi.
The four candidates cast their ballots in the early hours of the morning, and they are current President Sisi, head of the Republican People’s Party Hazem Omar, head of the Wafd Party Abdel-Sanad Yamama, and head of the Egyptian Democratic Party Farid Zahran.
The National Elections Authority confirmed the regularity of the voting process in most polling stations, which opened their doors to voters at nine in the morning local time, with “a high voting density during the first hour of the opening of polling stations.”
While the authority recorded the death of two voters in Cairo and Dakahlia governorates while participating in the voting process, it indicated that it had sent more judges and members of reserve judicial bodies to a number of subcommittees to speed up the pace of the voting process and reduce crowding in voter queues, according to the statement.
Elections Campaigns
It was noted that there were support campaigns on the part of some pro-Sisi parties, who carried out organized transfers of voters and organized their entry to the committees.
Supporters describe these elections as a step towards political pluralism, while their critics see them as a “sham”, especially after the withdrawal of Ahmed Al-Tantawi from the race, whom observers described as the most prominent potential opposition candidate after he announced his withdrawal due to what his campaign described as deliberately preventing them from obtaining the powers of attorney necessary to complete the elections. Nomination criteria. The National Elections Authority said that these allegations are baseless.
Will Al Sisi be back as President?
Al-Sisi has been serving as President of the Republic for about 10 years, during which the economic crisis has worsened, especially over the past two years, as the local currency has lost more than 50% of its value since March 2022. Inflation has also reached record levels, in light of a shortage in reserves. foreign currency.
Sisi was elected in 2014 and 2018, and this was supposed to be his last term according to the constitution, but in 2019 the constitution was amended to allow him to run for a third term lasting six years.
About 67 million citizens – registered electronically in voter lists – have the right to vote in these elections in about 11,600 electoral committees distributed among 27 governorates in the country, with the results to be issued on the eighteenth of this month.
A few days ago, the National Elections Authority announced the completion of the voting phase for Egyptians abroad, which was conducted according to the schedule on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of December, at the headquarters of the Egyptian diplomatic missions, including embassies and consulates spread around the world.
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