Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has won a new six-year term with 89.6 percent of the vote in a landslide election victory, the National Elections Authority announced on Monday. The head of the National Elections Authority, Judge Hazem Badawy, said that President El-Sisi received 39,702,451 valid votes.
The turnout was 66.8 percent of more than 67.3 million registered voters, said Badawy. About 44.8 million people cast their votes in the presidential elections from home and abroad.
The authority lauded the Egyptian people for their positive participation in the ballot.
El-Sisi faced competition from 3 candidates
El-Sisi faced off against three candidates in the vote held from Dec. 10-12. Egyptians abroad voted from Dec. 1–3 at 137 Egyptian embassies and consulates across 121 countries. There were 44,288,361 valid votes, representing 98.9 percent of the ballots cast, while 489,307 votes — 1.1 percent — were deemed invalid. Runner-up Hazem Omar received 1,986,352 votes, representing 4.5 percent of the valid ballots recorded by the authority.
Farid Zahran came in third with 1,776,952, or 4 percent of the votes. Abdel-Sanad Yamama came fourth with 822,606, or 1.9 percent of the votes, Badawy said. El-Sisi was elected president of Egypt for the first time in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018. The latest election is the third time in a decade El-Sisi has won in a landslide victory.
He is credited with engineering a return to public order in Egypt after a period of political violence and chaos that followed the 2011 uprising.
El-Sisi’s Speech after the Win
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi expressed his great happiness at the sight of Egyptians lining up and joining the ranks of voters in the presidential electoral entitlement, which is a clear indication to every observer at home or abroad of the vitality and effectiveness of Egyptian society in all its sects and categories, and confirms that the will of the Egyptians is effective in the voice of every Egyptian man and woman.
President Sisi said, in a speech to the nation, after announcing the results of the 2024 presidential elections, that this scene, which he followed closely, prompted him to express his great appreciation and gratitude to all Egyptians who participated in this important event, in this delicate circumstance, in which the state faces a package of challenges.
At all levels, at the forefront is the ongoing war on our eastern borders, which calls for the mobilization of all our efforts to prevent its continuation… with all the threat it represents to Egyptian national security in particular, and to the Palestinian cause in general as if the alignment of the Egyptians was a vote for the entire world to express Expressing their rejection of this inhumane war and not just choosing their president for a presidential term, in a refined civilized scene in which the efforts of the state – government, and people – combined to emerge with this honorable appearance, which did not witness any abuses or security breaches, despite these unprecedented crowds.
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