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EGYPT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Sisi wins second term with 92 percent of vote

AFP, Cairo
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second term with about 92 percent of the vote, preliminary results showed yesterday, with just over 40 percent of voters casting ballots.
Twenty-five million of the 60 million registered voters, or some 41.5 percent, turned out during the three days of polling that ended Wednesday, state-owned newspaper AI-Ahram reported. Twenty-three million voted for Sisi.
The Akhbar el-Youm newspaper did not report the full turnout but said Sisi won 21.4 million votes, and his rival Moussa Mostafa Moussa 721,000 votes, without mentioning the number of spoiled ballots.
According to Al-Ahram, in addi-
tion to 23 million who cast valid votes, two million spoiled their ballot papers.
Sisi's sole challenger was the little-known Moussa, himself a supporter of the president, who registered immediately before the close date for applications, saving the election from being a one-horse race.
Moussa conceded his loss on Wednesday
night, telling a television station he had hoped for 10 percent of the vote.
"But I know the immense popularity of President Sisi," he said.
Other, more heavy-weight would-be challengers were all sidelined, detained or pulled out.
Sisi, who as army chief ousted Egypt's first freely elected president - Islamist Mohamed Morsi — after mass street protests in 2013, won his first term in 2014 with 96.9 percent of the vote.
Turnout of 47 percent in that year's election was sharply higher than this year's 40 percent despite appeals from Prime Minister Sherif Ismail forvoters to fulfil 1 their patriotic duty.
Boycotters who cannot show good reason for not going to the polls could
a face a fine of up to 500 Egyptian pounds, the electoral commission has warned.
Election commission official, Mahmud al-Sherif, said there had been no violations of election law. Opposition groups had called for a boycott of this week's vote which they labelled a facade.