CAIRO: A poll conducted by Gallup, an American public opinion organization specializing in measuring public opinion and conducting surveys, said that there was a sharp decline in satisfaction of Egyptians towards the administration of American President Barack Obama this year due to a lack of progress on the issues that Egyptians considered as “very important.” It pointed out that these issues are the withdrawal from Iraq, the withdrawal of military bases from Saudi Arabia and support for the rights of Muslims to elect governments that they want and promote economic development, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, technological transformation and exchange of business expertise. The poll, conducted by the institution on the first anniversary of Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009, stressed that “the consent of the Egyptians on the performance of Obama`s administration on issues related to the Islamic world fell by 18 percent,” and also pointed out that this decline is the largest of its kind since 2009, saying that “there are other nations that are not satisfied with the performance of Obama`s administration regarding Middle East issues, “such as Algeria, whose level of satisfaction declined by 13 percent and came in second among the countries.” Also surveyed were Mauritania, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Iraq. The survey concluded that this decline reveals that there is a shift in the views of Egyptians, after gaining their “satisfaction with the American leadership immediately upon taking office in January 2009, by 19 percent, compared to 22 percent among Algerians.” BM
