Voters optimistic at Egypt's Wafd Party elections despite internal rift
Hundreds of Wafd Party members flocked to the party’s Cairo headquarters on Friday to cast their ballots in internal elections, amid an ongoing rift between the party head and prominent members.
The rift began earlier this month when at least 1,200 members of the right-of-centre party met in the Nile Delta governorate of Sharqiya, announcing that they were withdrawing their confidence in party head El-Sayed El-Badawi.
El-Badawi responded on the same day, suspending the membership of eight prominent members of the party’s high board.