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PILDAT says Feb 8 polls record lowest fairness score since 2013

  The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.

Sisi vow's to wipe out Muslim Brotherhood

General Sisi addressing just after coup against democratically elected president Muhammad Morsi
Egyptian formal army chief and sole presidential favorite Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed that if he wins the presidential elections he will wipe out the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Former Army general,  Abdul Fatah al-Sisi removed  Egypt's first ever democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi from power by a coup in last  July. 

Muhammad Morsi was jailed by General Sisi last year
The Egyptian elections are due on 26-27 May and Sisi is largely expected to win the elections as their remains no major player in the opposition. With Muslim Brotherhood ousted, Sisi's only opponent in the race is the leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi. 

Like all army dictators in Muslim world, Sisi had also denied that he had any political ambitions when he ousted President Morsi and launched a violent crackdown on his party Muslim Brotherhood killing hundreds and thousands had been jailed and Brotherhood was named terrorist organization.

Egypt has been ruled by military since 1950s, a line briefly broken by democratically elected president Muhammad Mursi who was about a year in the office. 

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