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Sisi to bring Egypt's 2024 presidential election forward

Campaign posters for Abdelfattah al-Sisi during the last presidential election, in central Cairo. © Fethi Belaid/AFP

Candidates can now apply as early as October, allowing the current administration to move the next presidential election up a few months. In the meantime, intelligence services are looking for a potential candidate to run against al-Sisi. [...]

Published on 05/06/2023 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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