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Presidential elections were held inEgypt between 26 and 28 March 2018,[1] thoughEgyptians abroad voted from 16 to 18 March 2018.[2] On 19 January, incumbent PresidentAbdel Fattah el-Sisi formally announced he would run for a second and final term.[3] El-Sisi won the election with 97%, according to the official results. A runoff would have taken place 19 to 21 April outside the country and 24 to 26 April within the country if no candidate had reached 50% of the vote.[4] The election had a turnout of roughly 41%, lower than the 2014 election's 47%.[5] A2019 constitutional change allowed El-Sisi to remain in power until 2030 instead of 2022.
The elections were conducted amid a repression campaign by incumbent President el-Sisi.[6] In the face of this repression, all opposition candidates pulled out of the election.[6] The only approved challenger to Sisi was anotherpro-government politician,Moussa Mostafa Moussa.[6] Fourteen human rights groups dismissed the poll as "farcical."[7][8] They said the authorities had "trampled over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections", stifling basic freedoms and eliminating key challengers.[9]
Thepresident of Egypt is elected using thetwo-round system.[10] If only one person runs for the presidency, they can be elected with a yes vote from five percent of eligible voters.[11]
TheCivil Democratic Movement announced on 30 January 2018 that it would boycott the vote.[12]
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was the incumbent president of Egypt.[3] After leading the2013 military coup that overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected president, el-Sisi retired from his military career in 2014 and subsequently won that year's presidential election.[9] In the announcement of his candidacy, he stated, "There are people I know who are corrupt, I will not allow them to come near this chair.”[13] President Sisi received the endorsement of 464 members ofEgyptian Parliament, approximately two thirds of the body.[14]
El-Ghad Party chairmanMoussa Mostafa Moussa, a pro-Sisi politician who had an active role in collecting nomination pledges for Sisi's second term until 20 January, announced that he found endorsements from 26 members of parliament, as well as 47,000 signatures from the public, although he declared his intention to run just a day before the deadline of the elections commission.[15][16] Moussa submitted his nomination pledges and official paperwork to the commission just 15 minutes before the deadline.[17] In an interview withEgypt Today, Moussa said he was not a "phony" candidate, and that he had "a vision that can be achieved by being part of the system".[18]
Supporters of former presidential candidatesSami Hafez Anan andKhaled Ali faced difficulties in registering pledges for them.[29] It was reported that el-Sisi exerted pressure on former presidential candidates so that they would not run against him.[30]
According toForeign Policy, "the March vote will in no way confirm President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's popularity among the Egyptian people. This election campaign is merely an extension of the internal power struggle among the military and the regime's security services, and it has nothing to do with democratic mechanisms worthy of the name."[31]
Following the elections, it was reported that large number of spoilt ballot papers, possibly more than a million, involved voters crossing out both names and writing that of football playerMohamed Salah.[32][33]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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| Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | Independent | 21,835,387 | 97.08 | |
| Moussa Mostafa Moussa | El-Ghad Party | 656,534 | 2.92 | |
| Total | 22,491,921 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 22,491,921 | 92.73 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,762,231 | 7.27 | ||
| Total votes | 24,254,152 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 59,078,138 | 41.05 | ||
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