CAIRO ¨C Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi swept to a third term as Egypt¡¯s president Monday in an election where he faced no serious challengers, calling the vote a rejection of the ¡°inhumane war¡± in neighboring Gaza.
The election, in which he took 89.6% of the vote according to the National Election Authority, was held as Egypt struggles with a slow-burning economic crisis and tries to manage the risk of spillover from the war adjacent to Egypt¡¯s Sinai Peninsula.
Many people in the Arab world¡¯s most populous country expressed indifference about the Dec. 10 to Dec. 12 election, saying the result was a foregone conclusion.
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