Egypt Prez Sisi re-elected with 97.08% vote in 'rigged' polls
3 April 2018 4:13 AM IST
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second term with over 97 per cent of valid votes, the National Election Authority (NEA) said on Monday.
In a televised press conference, NEA chairman Lasheen Ibrahim said that turnout was 41.05 per cent of the 60 million registered voters.
Ibrahim said that Sisi won 97.08 per cent of valid votes in the three-day presidential election. His sole challenger, the little-known centrist politician and al Ghad party chief, Moussa Mostafa Moussa won 2.92 per cent of valid votes.
Sisi won 21,835,378 votes, while Moussa won 656,534 votes, he added.
About 60 million people were eligible to vote in the election which was held in 13,687 polling stations across the country and under the supervision of 18,678 judges from various judicial bodies and authorities.
Sisi, the then army chief, overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013 following mass protests against his rule.
Morsi was Egypt's first democratically elected president following the 2011 overthrow of longtime president Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring uprisings.
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