Egyptian expats’ voting goes smoothly in Mauritania: Amb.

CAIRO – 17 March 2018: The Egyptian presidential election is commencing smoothly for expatriates in Mauritania for the second day in a row, Egyptian Ambassador Nouakchott Maged Nafei said Saturday.

“The Egyptian community in Mauritania is joyfully and happily keen to vote in the presidential election despite their few numbers,” he was quoted saying by the Egyptian News Agency MENA.

The number of Egyptian expatriates in Mauritania reached 150 at the end of 2016, according to data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in September 2017.

On Thursday evening, Egyptian expatriates started to cast their vote in the election worldwide to choose between incumbent President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and his only rival, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, al-Ghad party’s chairperson.

The election is being conducting in 139 embassies and consulates across 129 countries according to data from the NEA. Consulates and embassies in different countries officially opened their doors on Friday at 9:00 a.m. local time in each country.

This is the third presidential election to be held since the January 25 Revolution in 2011; a run-off round, if needed, is scheduled to take place in April.

The government and media outlets in Egypt have urged voters to head to the polls on the second day of the country's presidential election, amid a sign of a higher-than-expected turnout in the balloting on the first day.


Sixty million eligible voters at home are due to cast their ballots in the country's 27 governorates starting March 26 until 28.