Sisi clear winner in early Egyptian expat results

  20 May 2014    Read: 547
Sisi clear winner in early Egyptian expat results
Former Egyptian army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is a clear winner in the early results of the presidential election`s expat vote, his campaign announced on Monday night, Al Arabiya reported.
The numbers showed overwhelming support for Sisi in comparison to his rival, leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi. More than 300,000 Egyptian expats voted from Thursday through to Monday, the foreign ministry announced.

"According to the campaign, Sisi garnered 97 percent of valid votes in Australia (4,672 out of 4,816 and 33 invalid ballots), 93 percent in New Zealand (41 of 44 valid votes) and likewise in China`s Shanghai (66 of 71 valid votes)," Egypt`s Ahram newspaper reported.

"Sisi also took 77 percent of votes in the Philippines` Manila (30 out of 39) and 91 percent in Indonesia`s capital Jakarta (59 out of 65)," the report added.

In London, the Egyptian embassy announced that Sisi won 90.6 percent of the vote.

Full results are expected to be released later today.

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