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If we don’t deal with this issue, the numbers will just continue to grow. They are going surpass our countries and rob us of help for who need it most—those left without food or shelter on their own streets,” he said. Establishing a credible deterrent demands doing things differently, bucking the trend. Giorgia and I are willing to go that route.
Hazem Badawy, head of the election authority, says that turnout reached an “unparalleled” 66.8 percent. President Sisi, an army chief himself and in power for ten years already received more than 39 million votes.
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The elections, which took place between December 10 and 12 this year were among three relatively obscure candidates. Second was Hazem Omar, who heads the Republican People’s Party with 4.5 percent of the vote.
Thereafter came Farid Zahran, head of the leftwing Egyptian Social Democratic Party; and Abdel-Sanad Yamama from Egypt’s century-old but rather marginal Wafd.
Next April, President Sisi will enter his third term. As per the constitution, it has to be a final one in office for him now. Despite Egypt’s severest economic crisis, tensions in neighboring Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the candidate was widely considered to win-that is Sisi.
Moreover, the 36.4-percent annual inflation rate and particularly alarming plunge in value by the currency have made it necessary for prices of some basic commodities to increase every week; this is putting a heavy burden on housewives ‘budgets.
During the current economic crisis, over two-thirds of Egypt’s nearly 106 million people were already living at or below the poverty line.
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