Egypt's 2018 presidential election contenders

[HannibalBarca]

Congrats for your "Difficult" win. Mr Sissi.

 

[xenon54 out]

Congrats for your "Difficult" win. Mr Sissi.

I can vaguely remember that Sisi declared he wont run for another term after he won the last one or do i remember wrong?

PS: this is not sarcasm its a genuine question.

 

[hussain0216]

Oh brother!!!

 

[HannibalBarca]

I can vaguely remember that Sisi declared he wont run for another term after he won the last one or do i remember wrong?

PS: this is not sarcasm its a genuine question.

he will not run again in 2022... he said...
“I’m with preserving two four-year terms and not to change it,”

 

[xenon54 out]

he will not run again in 2022... he said...
“I’m with preserving two four-year terms and not to change it,”

Ok and what happens when the last opponent also gets dismissed?

 

[HannibalBarca]

Ok and what happens when the last opponent also gets dismissed?

He will still run...
What I'm interested in is how much better will he do than 2014...will he be able to surpass his last % at 96.91%

 

[xenon54 out]

He will still run...
What I'm interested in is how much better will he do than 2014...will he be able to surpass his last % at 96.91%

How many opponents did he have?

 

[HannibalBarca]

How many opponents did he have?

One

 

[xenon54 out]

One

And less than 4% of the population supported him? Ah c'mon.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Big Ramy wants to be President

 

[TurkeyForever]

So nothing changed in Egypt one dictator gone and another took his place.

 

[Oublious]

Mubarek have lasted for 30 years, how many can sisi do?

 

[Ceylal]

he will not run again in 2022... he said...
“I’m with preserving two four-year terms and not to change it,”

Coming from the guy who prolongued the élections two weeks to get the magic number of the Arab states election of 99.999999%.
He is going to nail his behind to his chair, until the cows start singing and dancing on the top of the pyramids..

 

[Gomig-21]

Congrats for your "Difficult" win. Mr Sissi.

We knew this was going to happen years ago. Sisi is just really good at hiding his intentions if you listen to him speak and all his actions are way behind the scenes. He let's the elite and the ones around him make the moves in covert ways so that he appears not to be the one who's doing this. For example, he didn't announce his candidacy until very late, which is not ordinary for an incumbent and instead, kept raising doubt and keeping the people curious for as long as possible while at the same time saying things like "well, I wasn't going to run but if the Egyptian people want me to run for president, I will consider it." Not even "I will" but "I will consider it." So he's really conscientious of trying not to make it look like he's behind the scenes of making the playing field completely tilted in his favor by allowing all of the powerful people around him to do it. Whether they do it at his behest or it's just an understanding that he's going along with, is hard to tell.

he will not run again in 2022... he said...
“I’m with preserving two four-year terms and not to change it,”

He said the same thing 2 years ago about this election and that's when we're gong to see if his intentions are like Mubarak and Erdogan because the Egyptian constitution limits the presidency to 2 4-year terms and that's it, but the Egyptian Parliament (which is stacked with Sisi fans) have been trying to push for an change to that amendment to increase the presidential terms to 6 years. They claim 4-year terms are not enough for a president to be able to make significant progress to the country but the interesting thing is that despite the very strong push for that, it got voted down by the same parliament. So there is hope that the Egyptian parliament will be the antithesis to any attempted corruption of the constitution. We will find out in 2022 for sure, if Egypt is on it's way to having truly democratically elected presidents, but in this election we won't because of 2 reasons.

1) Sisi is not only too powerful with too much support and no real, popular candidate has or will rise to challenge him for that reason.

2) He's done incredible things for the country in his last 4 years that no one can deny, which puts him in the front-runner seat with most people.

 

[Serpentine]

Egyptians decided this, now let them deal with consequences, good or bad. It's their choice.