By: Ashraf Sadek CAIRO, MARCH 30, 2018 - The final results of Egypt's March 26-28 presidential polls would be announced on Monday, the National Election Authority (NEA) said on Friday. The NEA said that it would organise an international press conference on April 2 at the headquarters of the Cairo-based State Information Service (SIS) to declare the final results of the presidential vote. It said that the official results would be announced after all the ballots had been counted. The NEA said it started receiving objections to any of the of balloting steps. However, the NEA decisions pertaining to these objections can be challenged before the Supreme Administrative Court which shall deliver its ruling on April 3 and 4. Al-Ahram said yesterday that the tentative turnout during the three-day vote was 42.08 per cent of the country's 60 million registered voters and that the count so far suggested more than 96.9 per cent of those who cast a ballot approved President Abdel Fattah El Sisi for a second term in office. It said that about 25 million eligible voters participated in the elections. The paper said that unofficial count showed that presidential hopeful Moussa Moustafa Moussa, the chairman of the liberal Al-Ghad Party, won 3.1 per cent of the eligible votes. The 2014 Constitution stepulates that the president-elect will be sworn in during a special session of House of Deputies (Egypt's parliament). In a related development, Mr. Abdallah Diop, head of the African Union Election Observation Mission, on Friday day praised transparence, fairness of presidential polls, which he said were held in a peaceful and secure environment. Mr. Diop, the former foreign minister of Mali, said that the voting was proceeding problem-free and that security measures were well in place at all polling stations
