Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won Egypt's presidential elections by a huge majority, the country's election commission has said.
The former military chief, who last July overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, won 96.91 of legal votes cast in last week's election.
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THE RESULT |
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SISI 23,780,104 (96.91%) SABAHI 757,511 (3.09%) |
Two new laws aimed at regulating Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections and the performance of the House of Representatives have triggered a sharp backlash from most political parties, be they old guard political parties or new revolutionary movements.
The differences over the two laws must be settled by newly-elected president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi before 18 July as the new constitution, passed on 18 January, stipulates that preparations for Egypt's parliamentary polls must begin within six months of its ratification or before 18 July.
Whatever the numbers are that are being broadcast about voter turnout percentages in the current presidential elections, one must bear in mind that the number of people going to the polls was very modest and that a carrot and stick was used to motivate people to vote. It took quite a bit of effort to get people to the polls.
The Presidential Elections Committee (PEC) has said final results of Egypt’s recent elections will be announced at 7pm on Tuesday.
Preliminary results have indicated a landslide victory for former defence minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi over his Nasserist opponent, Hamdeen Sabahy. State-owned Al-Ahram’s preliminary results show that Al-Sisi won 96.71% of the vote, with Sabahy claiming just 3.286%.
Al-Sisi was hotly tipped to win the two-man race, on the back of popular support gained after he announced the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
La Comisión Suprema Electoral de Egipto ha rechazado los recursos presentados por el candidato presidencial izquierdista Hamdin Sabahi, quien impugnó los resultados de los comicios celebrados la pasada semana y denunció varias irregularidades.
El órgano electoral, que se reunió el domingo durante siete horas para estudiar las reclamaciones de Sabahi, concluyó que no hay pruebas suficientes, informaron hoy los medios oficiales egipcios.
Cumpliendo el guion establecido en varios países del mundo tras un golpe de Estado, Egipto ha celebrado elecciones presidenciales en las que ha resultado vencedor, con el 93,3% de los votos, el general Abdelfatá al Sisi, el exjefe del Ejército que en julio de 2013 —asegurando que pretendía salvar la democracia— protagonizó un golpe de Estado.
No hay nada como las urnas. Lo demuestran las dos mayores elecciones democráticas de la historia celebradas en India, entre el 20 de abril y el 10 de mayo, y en la Unión Europea, entre el 22 y el 25 de mayo, utilizadas por cientos de millones de ciudadanos para cambiar el paisaje político e incluso determinar la orientación de sus gobiernos.
Protests have been taking place in cities across Egypt, days after the country elected former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi its president in a vote his sole contender has appealed.
On Friday, demonstrators took to the streets in the capital Cairo, Bani Suef and Fayoum, holding banners with photos of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi and chanting against the president-elect.
Preliminary results from the three-day election that ended on Wednesday gave 96 percent of votes to Sisi and 3 percent to leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.
Egyptian former leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi speaks during a press conference after preliminary results from Egypt's presidential election gave ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi 96 percent of the vote on May 29, 2014 in the capital Cairo.
Speaking at a news conference, Sabbahi said "I accept my defeat and respect the people's choice" in the three-day election that ended on May 29.
Egypt’s former military chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, vowed on Thursday that the country would not go backwards but move forward after the initial results of the presidential election see him winning by a landslide.
“We know that some people fear a return to the past, but this will not happen, there is no going back and we will move forward,” Sisi said responding to a question about the fears of a return to the situation before the Jan. 25 revolution, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida.
Former army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who won a landslide victory this week in the Egyptian presidential election, is likely to face severe threats from militant groups during his upcoming rule.
On Thursday, Egyptian jihadist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis issued a threat to Sisi, Al Arabiya News Channel’s Arabic website reported.
“Will Sisi last till he takes over power? And if he does, will he remain?” the group asked in a tweet following the announcement of the initial results of the presidential elections.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that an "intense crackdown" on the opposition in Egypt is creating a "repressive environment that severely undermines the fairness of the elections."
In a news brief, HRW's Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson said: "The mass arrests of thousands of political dissidents, whether Islamist or secular, has all but shut down the political arena and stripped these elections of real meaning."
Whitson added: "The presidential election cannot mask the ongoing brutal crackdown on peaceful opposition."
Former Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is poised to win the country's presidential election in a landslide -- though the fairness of the vote has been questioned.
Exit polls suggest el-Sisi won 95.3% of the vote, while opponent Hamdeen Sabahy garnered only 4.7%, according to data from the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research and the Egyptian TV channel MBC Masr.
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