Eighty seven percent of Egyptian citizens are satisfied with the performance of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after his first 100 days in power, according to an official survey made public on Wednesday.
The poll was conducted by the Cabinet’s Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC), which acts as a think tank for the cabinet.
The poll failed to specify the quantity of the sample used or the criteria upon which the sample was chosen. It only mentioned the quantity of the sample which responded to each question separately.
According to the poll, 59.4 percent of the sample of 1421 citizens are “highly satisfied” with Sisi’s performance, 15.6 percent are “satisfied” and 12.5 percent are “satisfied to some extent”.
Sisi’s performance was “unsatisfactory” for 0.6 percent of the sample, while one percent said they are “not satisfied at all with the performance.” Ten point nine percent responded to the question with “I don’t know”.
Out of 902 asked about their opinion on Egypt’s progress, 67 percent said “Egypt is moving in the right direction,” 22 percent said “Egypt is moving in the right direction” but with certain “reservations”, while 10 percent said “Egypt is moving in the wrong direction.”
When asked about the best decision made by the newly elected president, 53 percent of the sample of 1420 asked said it was the decision to launch the new Suez Canal Development Project.
The mega project was announced by Sisi on August 5. It entails digging a 72-km (45-mile) bifurcation to the Suez Canal as well as developing the Suez Canal region.
Other decisions taken by Sisi which the sample approved included; restoring security and fighting terrorism (2.8 percent), restructuring Egypt’s relation to other states (1.9 percent), establishing a new system for supplies commodities (1.5 percent) and ending the Muslim Brotherhood’s control over the state as well as eliminating them from political life (1.4 percent).
Over 32 percent of the sample did not specify the best decision they believe Sisi has taken, while 1.6 percent said “none” of the decisions the president has so far taken are “good”.
Baseera, the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research, conducted a similar poll on Sisi’s performance during his first 100 days as president on September 22. According to the independent Baseera poll, 82 percent of 1795 sample were satisfied with the president’s performance.
Sisi swore the republican oath on June 8, after winning the presidential elections in a landslide victory, reaping over 96 percent of the valid votes.
He gained nationwide popularity after announcing the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi’s on July 3, 2013. Sisi was then minister of defence.