Egypt announces presidential election to be held in December

Egypt announced that it will hold a presidential election on 10-12 December, after originally being due to take place in 2024, with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi widely expected to win a third term.

The Elections Authority on Monday said the list of candidates would be finalised by 9 November, electoral campaigning would take place from 9-29 November and the winner announced on 18 December.

Sisi first came to power in 2014 after leading a coup against Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. He won the 2018 election in a landslide victory, carrying 97 percent of the vote, against one candidate, himself a supporter of Sisi, after all serious opposition hopefuls had either been arrested or pulled out, citing intimidation.

Most notable among the four candidates who have so far expressed an intention to run in the upcoming election is former lawmaker Ahmed Tantawy.

The presidential election will take place as Egypt is in the midst of a severe economic crisis that has seen the currency lose half its value against the dollar, record inflation and foreign currency shortages.

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