Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafiq has won 100 percent of the votes cast by eligible Egyptian citizens living in Israel, Ynet News reported on Sunday.
Shafiq faces off with Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi in a closely watched June 16-17 runoff election.
Shafiq, a career air force officer who fought against Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, was a close associate of former president Hosni Mubarak during his decades-long rule and was briefly Egyptian prime minister during the period after Mubarak stepped down. He is trailing in the polls against Morsi, an Islamist candidate backed by the powerful Muslim Brotherhood.
Although thousands of Egyptians live in Israel, mostly in the Nazareth area, only a handful are eligible to vote because to do so they must possess identity cards issued after the 2011 revolution that toppled Mubarak’s regime.
Shafiq won the majority of votes in other foreign locations too. Based on tallies from ballots in 40 countries, Safiq leads with 28,892 over his rivals’ 17,569.
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