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President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was sworn in for a third six-year term on 2nd April. He was re-elected in a December vote, wherein he did not face any serious threat from a few aspiring candidates. El-Sissi took the oath of office before parliament in the newly built administrative capital situated in the desert outside Cairo.
El-Sissi won 89.6% of the vote in the December election, with a turnout of 66.8% more than 67 million registered voters. He ran against three virtually unknown opponents.
Egypt grapples with an economic crisis triggered by factors like resource crunch, erosion in the domestic value of the Egyptian Pound, and inflation. To further compound its problems, the revenues from the ships passing through the Suez Canal have gone down after attacks on ships passing through the canal by Yemen’s Houthis rebels in the Red Sea.
As a reprieve from its economic ills, recently Egypt has received substantial aid from the EU to tie down its resource crunch. A good portion of the aid is set apart for addressing the migrant problems being faced by the West European countries as the number of migrants crossing the sea has increased in recent years.
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El-Sissi overthrew democratically elected Islamist Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and proceeded to win his first election the following year. El-Sissi was re-elected in 2018. A year later, after constitutional amendments, a general referendum added two years to el-Sissi’s second term and allowed him to run for a third, six-year term.
