Egyptians Slow To Vote On Extra Day To Shore Up Sisi

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
28 May 2014
Tags:
Egypt, Governance

Egyptians were initially slow to vote on a hastily added third day of a presidential election on Wednesday after lower-than-expected turnout threatened to damage the credibility of the man widely forecast to win, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. An early tour of Cairo polling stations suggested authorities would again struggle to get people to cast their ballots. After months of adulation by the media encouraged by his supporters in government, the security services and business, many Egyptians were shocked when the election failed to produce the mass support predicted by Sisi himself.

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