
Interim President of Egypt Adly Mansour
Egypt will hold a presidential poll this year before parliamentary elections, interim president Adly Mansour said Sunday, in a move seen to benefit army chief Abdel Fattah al Sisi. The election would be held from mid-April, according to a
timetable included in a constitution adopted in a referendum this month.
The military-installed government says the elections will restore democratic rule by the end of the year, after the army toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July.
It had initially planned parliamentary elections first, but it has rescheduled the polls in line with demands for a president to be elected before the legislature, Mansour said.
"I have taken a decision to amend the roadmap of the future by starting with a presidential election," he said in an address on state television.
Holding the presidential election first are expected to influence the outcome of the parliamentary poll.
Candidates for the legislature are likely to rally around the elected president to improve their chances at the ballot box.
This would mean a friendlier legislature for the president, analysts say.
Sisi is the only serious potential candidate at the moment, although he has yet to announce his widely anticipated candidacy.
The powerful army chief has said he would stand in the election if there were "popular demand".
Source: AFP
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