2023-12-11 04:30:18
The first day of the Egyptian presidential elections, which began on Sunday, witnessed two deaths, a man and a woman while casting their votes, while a famous artist voted “twice.”
On Sunday, the National Elections Authority announced Official statement On “the regular conduct of the voting process in the 2024 presidential elections, in all polling stations at the level of all Egyptian governorates.”
The Authority mourned a woman who passed away at the age of 63 while she was present to cast her electoral vote before one of the polling stations in the third district of Nasr City in the capital, Cairo.
He also mourned a man who died at the age of 55 while casting his vote in front of one of the polling stations in the city of Nabaruh in Dakahlia Governorate.
Later on Sunday, the National Elections Authority announced that it had monitored the incident of a female voter voting “twice” in the 2024 presidential elections, indicating that the incident would be referred to investigation authorities, it said.Local media“.
Egyptian newspapers reported, “Sunrise“The voter is the famous artist, Lebleba, who cast her vote in the presidential elections for the second time inside Egypt despite having voted in a committee in Saudi Arabia while Egyptians were voting abroad.
Activists circulated posts on social media with pictures showing the famous artist voting in Saudi Arabia for the first time and then in Egypt for the second time.
The committee found that the voter voted abroad in one of the embassies in the Arab countries during the period designated for Egyptians voting abroad on December 1, 2, and 3, and that she voted again during the electoral process that took place in Egypt on Sunday.
The General Electoral Commission in Egypt, which supervises the polling subcommittee before which the voter cast her vote, took the necessary legal measures against the voter and referred her to the competent judicial investigation authorities.
According to Article No. 66 of the Law on the Exercise of Political Rights in Egypt, “Anyone who expresses his opinion regarding the election or A referendum while he knows that he has no right to do so.”
The same penalty shall also be imposed on anyone who expresses his opinion by assuming the name of someone else, as well as anyone who participates in a single election or referendum more than once.
Behind the polling station, a Archyde.com correspondent saw bags containing flour, rice, and other basic goods being distributed to people who had traces of ink on their fingers, indicating that they had cast their votes.
Some expressed their disappointment that the bags do not contain sugar, the price of which has risen sharply recently.
Two Archyde.com reporters saw voters being transported by buses to polling stations.
Two sources in the Ministry of Electricity said, “The scheduled power outages linked to the decrease in gas supplies during the voting days have been suspended.”
On Sunday morning, polling stations in Egypt opened their doors for presidential elections taking place over 3 days, the results of which appear to be settled in terms of Sisi (69 years old) winning a third term, against three candidates who are not widely known to the public.
Three candidates are running against Sisi in the elections: Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, which represents the center-left movement, Abdel-Sanad Yamama, head of the liberal Wafd Party, and Hazem Omar, head of the Republican People’s Party.
According to the National Elections Authority, about 67 million Egyptians over the age of 18 have the right to vote out of a total population of approximately 106 million people, 60 percent of whom live around the poverty line.
At 14:30 GMT, “5 million” voters had already cast their votes, out of 67 million Egyptians who have the right to vote, according to the Supreme Elections Commission.
Critics see the elections as a “formalism” after a decade-long crackdown on the opposition, while the State Information Service, the government media body, described it as a step towards political pluralism.
Former parliamentary representative, Ahmed Al-Tantawi, said in an interview with Al-Hurra website that the results of the Egyptian presidential elections that began on Sunday in Egypt are “decided,” and he described the voting process as “measures to reinstall the current Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, for a third term.”
“Just settled procedures.” Al-Tantawi comments on the electoral process in Egypt
Former parliamentary representative, Ahmed Al-Tantawi, said in exclusive statements to Al-Hurra website that the Egyptian presidential elections that began on Sunday in Egypt are “decided,” and he described the voting process as “measures to re-install the current Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, for a third round.”
Al-Hurra website contacted Counselor Mahmoud Fawzi, director of Sisi’s electoral campaign, to respond to what Tantawi mentioned, but we did not receive a comment.
The victory will give Sisi a six-year term, during which the immediate priorities are to tame near-record inflation, address the chronic shortage of foreign currency, and prevent the expansion of the conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Hamas movement, “classified as a terrorist organization in the United States and other countries.”
The economic problem is at the forefront of concerns in a country facing the largest economic crisis in its history, with an inflation rate approaching 40 percent and a local currency that has lost 50 percent of its value, leading to price fluctuations.
From voting to sorting and announcing the results… How is the Egyptian president elected?
On Sunday, Egyptians at home began casting their votes, after voting by Egyptians residing outside the country ended last week, with voting operations extending for three days before the results are announced about a week later.
Egyptians who support the Egyptian president believe that Sisi is “the architect of the return of calm to the country after the chaos that followed the 2011 revolution and the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.”
In 2014, Al-Sisi, who was Minister of Defense at the time, achieved an expected landslide victory in the presidential elections, winning 96.9 percent of the votes, but the abstention rate from participation reached 53 percent, according to Agence France-Presse.
In March 2018, Sisi was re-elected for a second term with more than 97 percent of the votes.
After that, Sisi introduced a constitutional amendment so that his second term became six years instead of four, and he was able to run for a third term.
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