The beginning of the silence of the presidential election in Egypt

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the silence of the Egyptian presidential election started this morning (Friday); The elections are scheduled to be held on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

According to Al-Watan Masr newspaper, during the two days of election silence, four candidates do not have the right to advertise and only have to invite people to participate. Act in the elections and provide the necessary information to the voters. This is the fifth election in the history of Egypt and the third election since 2013 (the coup of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi).

Voting outside Egypt was held last Friday (December 10) and now inside Egypt. In Egypt, 67 million people are going to cast their votes in 10085 polling stations. If it is necessary to re-run the elections, Egyptians living abroad will cast their votes on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of January 2024, and the citizens inside the country will vote on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of next January, and the results will be announced on the 16th of next January.

“Ahmad Bandari”, the executive director of the National Election Organization of Egypt, has said that all preparations have been made to hold elections inside Egypt.

Four candidates In the names of “Abd al-Fattah Saeed Hossein Khalil al-Sisi”, the current president of Egypt, “Abd al-Sand Yamameh”, the head of Al-Wafd Party, “Hazem Omar”, the head of the Republican People’s Party and “Farid Zahran”, the head of the Democratic Party of Egypt, are going to compete, according to Amendments made to the Egyptian constitution (2019), the presidential term has been increased from four years to six years, and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can remain in office for another six-year term (until 2030).

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