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Sunday, March 4, 2018
Sissi challenger organizes rally, no one shows up
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCAIRO — The sole candidate running against Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in this month’s national election attempts to organize a rally, but no one shows up.
About a dozen workers from the campaign of Moussa Mustafa Moussa carry posters of him about 100 meters in downtown Cairo on Sunday, stopping well short of the end of their planned march. At least twice as many photographers and cameramen from state and private media document the march.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is virtually certain to win re-election in the March 26-28 vote, after a string of would-be contenders withdrew under pressure or were arrested.
Moussa, the only other candidate on the ballot, is a little-known politician who supports Sissi. He doesn’t attend the march and has largely avoided the media.
— AP
The March of One: campaign staff of Moussa Moustapha Moussa, the el-Sissi supporter who’s now his sole rival (in name only) organize a parade for the cameras. No one joins. #egypt pic.twitter.com/rfeT8MZaxC
— Brian Rohan روهان (@Brian_Rohan) March 4, 2018
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