President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi secured a commanding majority of 89.6% of the vote to secure a second six-year term, as declared by Egypt’s electoral commission on Monday.
The head of the authority, Hazem Badawy, said that the election saw “unprecedented” voter turnout of 66.8%.
President Sisi, a former army chief who has ruled Egypt for 10 years, received the votes of over 39 million Egyptians.
Between December 10 and 12, there was an election in which President Sisi faced off against three relatively unknown candidates.
The head of the Republican People’s Party, Hazem Omar, received 4.5% of the vote to finish in second place.
Abdel-Sanad Yamama of the Wafd Party and Farid Zahran, the leader of the left-leaning Egyptian Social Democratic Party, came after him.
Right now, the president is set to embark on his third term, which, according to the constitution, will be his final term, starting in April.
Egypt’s economic challenges have been considerable, with the Egyptian pound plummeting and yearly inflation reaching 36.4%.
Due to these circumstances, the cost of necessities has gone up, which has an effect on household budgets in the country, where almost two thirds of the people were already living on or below the poverty line.
