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| Egypt once again returns to military rule as Al-Sisi grabs the Presidential seat |
Cairo : Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi grabbed victory in Thursday's election what is called bogus ever elections of Egyptian history.
Ironically, the election were supervised, run and contested by a dictator Al-Sisi who overthrew Egypt's first ever democratically elected government by popular vote.
Al-Sisi, who overthrew Mursi government last year, is backed by so called Western champions of democracy, won the elections by 92.2 percent vote and his only rival, leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, took 3.8 percent votes.
Although the timings for the vote were extended again and again, still turnout was low which suggested that that Egyptian people were not interested in this vote.
Former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, not only lead a coup against democratically elected Mursi government but he jailed and persecuted hundreds of thousand democracy supporters by mass persecutions with Egypt's Kangaroo courts awarding capital punishments to hundreds at a time.
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| Al-Sisi used brutal force wipe out Muslim Brotherhood |
Al-Sisi, has already declared that if he wins he will wipe out Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
New York Times reported that Egyptian presidential elections fell short of international standards of democracy, according to observers of two foreign teams.
Eric Bjornlund, President of Democracy International, an election-monitoring organization of United States, said that, "Egypt's repressive political environment made a genuinely democratic presidential election impossible", and he called political context "hugely troubling."
On the other hand, the team of European Union observers said that, despite guarantees in Egypt's Constitution, respect for the essential freedoms of association and expression "falls short of these constitutional principles."
Robert Goebbels, a Luxembourg member said that winner has overwhelming advantage in both financial resources and news media attention.
It is still astonishing that despite of emptiness of the polling stations on both scheduled days of elections, and the absence of voters was so conspicuous on the first two days scheduled days of balloting that election officials took the extraordinary step of adding a third day at the last minute to strengthened the total turnout, New York Time reported.
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| Hundreds of Muslim Brother supporters were killed by Al-Sisi |
International observers faulted the last-minute addition of a third day as a needless irregularity that raised doubts about the credibility of the process.
There were no independent checks as compared to previous elections in which Muslim Brotherhood dominated Egyptian elections, Muslim Brotherhood is outlawed and repressed by Al-Sisi. On the night before the added day of voting, the Sabahi campaign withdrew its monitors from polls, complaining that security forces there were excluding, assaulting and arresting them.
Speaking on Turn out, Mr. Bjornlund said, "We do not know what the turnout for this election was", as they did not see a large turnout in this election. He also complained that there were only 86 international monitors in the team which is very small to observe the elections.
Fact File : Egypt's military lead by Al-Sisi carried out a coup against first ever democratically elected President Muhammad Mursi last year and banned Muslim Brotherhood from contesting the elections and hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members are persecuted, tortured and jailed. Surprisingly, international community as well as election observers neither protested nor mentioned the plea of Egyptian people in their report which is disguising.