{"id":8341,"date":"2023-12-18T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2023-12-18T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T14:22:24","slug":"egypt-election-sissi-re-elected-with-89-6-of-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/egypt-election-sissi-re-elected-with-89-6-of-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Election: Sissi re-elected with 89.6% of the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi won the country&#8217;s presidential election with 89.6% of the vote, securing himself a new six-year term, the National Elections Authority announced on Monday.<br \/>\nThe head of the Authority, Hazem Badawy, said that turnout had reached an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; 66.8% among Egypt&#8217;s 67 million voters.<br \/>\nMore than 39 million voters cast their ballots for Mr Sissi, who has been at the helm of the country for a decade.<br \/>\nThe President was pitted against three candidates: Hazem Omar, leader of the Republican People&#8217;s Party and second in the poll with 4.5% of the vote, Farid Zahran, leader of a small left-wing party, and Abdel-Sanad Yamama of the Wafd, a century-old but now marginal party.<br \/>\nMr Sissi&#8217;s victory guarantees him a third term in office, starting in April and supposed to be his last, under the Egyptian Constitution.<br \/>\nHis election comes as no surprise in a country of 106 million people beset by multiple crises, ranging from purchasing power to the war in neighbouring Gaza.<br \/>\nIn the midst of an economic crisis, inflation currently stands at 36.4%, while the currency has lost half its value and the price of certain basic foods is rising every week.<br \/>\nTwo-thirds of the population live below or just above the poverty line.<br \/>\nIn the 2014 and 2018 presidential elections, Mr Sissi won with more than 96% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi won the country&#8217;s presidential election with 89.6% of the vote, securing himself a new six-year term, the National Elections Authority announced on Monday. The head of the Authority, Hazem Badawy, said that turnout had reached an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; 66.8% among Egypt&#8217;s 67 million voters. More than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}