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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi won the country’s presidential election with 89.6% of the vote. He will be the president of the Northern African country for another six years
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi won the country’s presidential election with 89.6% of the vote. He will be the president of the Northern African country for another six years. The voter turnout was a record at 66.8%, whereas the eligible voters’ number was 67 million, according to the National Elections Authority Hazem Badawy. This is Sissi’s third term as the president. In the 2014 and 2018 presidential elections, Sissi won with more than 96% of the vote.
Sissi’s victory has not come as a surprise. www.trendsnafrica.com has reported about the foregone conclusion since there was no opposition worth the name of the incumbent president. Egypt, a country of 106 million people, does not have a good track record of allowing dissent and respect for human rights.
More than 39 million voters cast their ballots for Sissi, who has been at the helm of the country for a decade. The President was pitted against three candidates: Hazem Omar, leader of the Republican People’s Party and second in the poll with 4.5% of the vote, Farid Zahran, leader of a small left-wing party, and Abdel-Sanad Yamama of the Wafd, a century-old but now marginal party.
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Egypt has been passing through a difficult economic trajectory. inflation currently stands at 36.4%, while the currency has lost half its value and the price of certain basic foods is rising every week. Two-thirds of the population lives below or just above the poverty line. The country has embarked on a massive economic reform policy, which focuses on privatization to make a large number of public undertakings feasible and profitable.
