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El-Sissi enters the race as the clear favorite, with no serious challenge from any other candidates. If elected, which many feel is a foregone conclusion, it will be El Sissi’s third term as the president of Egypt.
El-Sissi enters the race as the clear favorite, with no serious challenge from any other candidates. If elected, which many feel is a foregone conclusion, it will be El Sissi’s third term as the president of Egypt. As the Northern African country enters the election phase, as predicted by pollsters and reported by www.trendsnafrica.com, El-Sissi enters the race as the clear favorite, with no serious challenge from any other candidates. If elected, which many feel is a foregone conclusion, it will be El Sissi’s third term as the president of the Northern African country. The election commission announced that the presidential elections will be held over three days between December 10 and 12. A runoff will be held on January 8 to 10 if no candidate secures more than 50% of the vote.
The president has been in power since 2014 after he led the military overthrow of an elected but divisive Islamist president in 2013. Sissi’s rule has been, as political analysts say, a mixed bag. While he could give political stability to the Northern African country, the country is presently facing a number of issues. High inflation and large-scale unemployment are a few of them.
Egypt has a cordial relationship with the Western bloc and at the same time, it is close to both Russia and China. The multilateral organizations and European Banks have large exposures in the country, which Sissi’s political opponents claim did not lead to the expected results. The debt burden of the country is considerable and is increasing with time. The country faced the backlash of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war. Egypt imports most of its foodgrains from Russia and Ukraine, which got disrupted because of the war, creating a severe food deficit in the country.
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Of late, the country, despite heavy resistance from certain sections of the people, is carrying out economic reforms by divesting stakes in the large public sector undertakings. The privatization move is resisted by a section of the people who fear an increase in the prices once the subsidies are withdrawn. Many also feel that the country is run with an iron fist and that the right to dissent is often infringed. Human rights violations are often reported in the country.
