Egypt’s National Election Authority (NEA) is scheduled to announce next Monday the results of the presidential elections pitting President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Mousa Mostafa Mousa.
On Friday evening, the deadline for contesting the results of the elections ended in the absence of any petition.
Mahmoud Helmy el-Sherif, deputy chairman of the National Election Authority and its spokesman, said that the committee did not receive any petition to contest the results of the pollds, adding that the final result will be announced on April 2.
According to preliminary counts, Sisi has won a second term with more than 92 percent of the overall votes.
Abdoulaye Diop, head of the African Union Election Observation Mission deployed to monitor the elections, said voters cast their ballots in a very peaceful and organized environment, describing the widespread deployment of security forces around polling stations as “reassuring.”
Diop also noted the high turnout of women, who represented the highest number of voters during the three-day election.
“The mission did not spot any fraud at any of the polling stations it visited during the elections,” he said during a press conference held in Cairo on Friday.
The African Union observation team consists of around 40 observers covering 12 governorates.
The NEA has approved dozens of NGOs to observe and monitor the elections, including the National Council of Human Rights, the National Women’s Council and the African Union.
After the announcement of the official results, and in accordance with the 2014 Constitution, Egypt’s elected president should be sworn in by the parliament to officially start a four-year term in office.
The elected President would take the following oath before the People’s Assembly: “I swear by Almighty God to uphold the Republican system with loyalty, to respect the Constitution and the law, and to look after the interests of the people fully and to safeguard the independence and territorial integrity of the motherland.”
