Egypt's President el-Sissi headed for victory in election decried by critics as a farce
CAIRO - In a result that was never in doubt, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi appears headed to a second term at the helm of the Arab world's most populous nation after any serious challengers were prevented from running against him.
The resounding election victory - in which el-Sissi garnered more than 90 percent of the vote, according to unofficial tallies published Thursday by state-run media - was dampened by a lower turnout than four years ago.
El-Sissi's lone opponent - Moussa Mostafa Moussa, an ardent supporter of the president whose last-minute candidacy was widely seen as an attempt to give the election a veneer of legitimacy - was reported to have received about 3 percent of the ballots cast over
