Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from the military. But a lower than expected turnout … read more
presidential elections scheduled for Monday and Tuesday provide a choice between only two candidates, Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabbahi and former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. This is the second presidential elections to be held since the January 25 Revolution in 2011. The … read more
The campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi withdrew all its delegates from polling stations on Wednesday on the third day of Egypt’s presidential election. The Presidential Elections Commission supervising the election extended the vote for an extra day on Wednesday. … read more
The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) has extended voting hours on Tuesday to 10pm, as Egyptians cast their ballots in the second day of a two-day election to choose their first leader since last year’s ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. … read more
In Mahalla Al-Kobra in the Nile Delta, voters reportedly discovered cannabis plants being grown in the yard of a school that was being used as a polling station on the first day of Egypt’s presidential election. According to independent … read more
Egyptians continued voting on Tuesday in a two-day presidential election in which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi are competing. Polling stations will be opened until 10.00 p.m. on Tuesday. Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab … read more
Last year, the Washington-based Judicial Watch foundation released an academic paper penned by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his 2006 studies at the US Army War College. The paper reveals the strongman’s views on democracy in the Middle East. On the … read more
Egypt‘s Interior Ministry denied an earlier report on state TV of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling station in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first day of voting in presidential elections. In a post on … read more
Sisi will likely win Egypt’s presidential election this week; but can he keep the Brotherhood in check, will he be able to put the country’s economy back on track, what kind of ties will he have with Israel, the West? … read more
The High Elections Committee (HEC) decided on Sunday to discard the violation of handing out free bulbs to campaign for presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Committee Secretary General Abdel Aziz Salman said it was not proven that Sisi or his … read more