In Egypt, the people went to the polls for three days to elect the new president. Despite posters in the streets, conferences and seminar advertisements, participation was rather low. Government officials have discounted up to 50 percent of voters in many shops and shopping centers to increase the number of voters going to the polls.
Almost all the opposition parties and groups boycotted the election. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who came to power in the military coup in 2013, is seeing definite to be re-elected in the elections that started on March 26.
Sisi claimed that he won the first presidential election in 2014 with 96.9 percent of the vote. However, a large part of the people did not go to the ballot box because Muslims Brotherhood did not show any candidate and boycotted the election. 37 percent voters participated in the elections that time lasted for two days.
Due to the economic crisis, rising prices and pressures on the public, support for Sisi is gradually declining. Sisi is the fifth president from the army since 1952 when the monarch was taken over in Egypt.
Leading the military coup against elected President Muhammad Morsi, Sisi sat down on the presidential seat despite protest against him.
Muhammad Morsi, the first elected president of the country, became President on June 30, 2012, after former president Hosni Mubarak left his post because of civil commotions.
President Muhammad Morsi, who was arrested and sent to prison after the military coup in 2013 by Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has been held in a single cell for about 4 years. (ILKHA)