Egypt’s incumbent president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, has won the country’s presidential election with 89.6 percent of the vote for another six-year term, the Egyptian election authority announced Monday.
The head of Egypt’s electoral authority, Hazem Badawy, said voter turnout reached an unprecedented 66.8 percent of Egypt’s 67 million eligible voters.
More than 39 million voters cast ballots for Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi, who has ruled Egypt for a decade.
Three candidates ran alongside Al-Sissi in the three-day presidential election held on December 10, 11 and 12.
They were Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, Abdel-Sanad Yamama, head of the Wafd Party, and Hazem Omar, head of the Republican People’s Party.
Hazem Omar received nearly 1,986,000 votes compared to 1,767,000 for Farid Zahran, while Abdul-Sanad Yamama, leader of the Wafd Party, received 822,000 votes.
Abdelfattah Al-Sissi was first elected in 2014 with 97% of the vote.
He was re-elected for a second four-year term in April 2018, before parliament approved constitutional amendments the following year that included extending the presidential term to six years and the possibility of another six-year term until 2030.
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