Egypt’s About-Face
From the beginning, even before the third election since the Arab Spring of 2011 had been organized, the victor was already known: incumbent Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, who won the 2014 presidential election.
An Egyptian woman shows her identification card as she waits to vote at a polling station in the town of Ibshawai, near Fayoum, 100 km (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Polls opened Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt\'s landmark parliamentary elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak\'s ouster in a popular uprising earlier this year.
The three-day presidential election in Egypt on Mar. 26-28 brought no surprises. From the beginning, even before the third election since the Arab Spring of 2011 had been organized, the victor was already known: incumbent Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, who won the 2014 presidential election. It is expected that people would call it a referendum, and not election.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi