Sisi gets 94.5% and Sabahi 5.5% in expat vote

By Aswat Masriya

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Thursday ,22 May 2014

Sisi gets 94.5% and Sabahi 5.5% in expat vote

Egypt's elections commission announced on Wednesday that 296,628 (94.5%) Egyptians living abroad have voted for former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi while 17,207 (5.4%) have voted for leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.

Local polls will open on May 26 and 27.

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