King of Jordan congratulates Sisi on winning second term

CAIRO – 3 April 2018: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received a congratulatory call from the king of Jordan Abudllah II on winning second presidential term. King Abdullah II expressed his best wishes for the Egyptian people, said presidential spokesman Bassam Rady on Monday.


The Jordanian King praised the relations between his country and Egypt, wishing morewished the Jordanian monarch wished Egypt and its people more prosperity, hailing the relations between Amman and Cairo.

Sisi appreciated King Abdullah’s call, lauding the deeply-rooted ties between the two countries.

He asserted keenness to promote cooperation and consultation with Jordan.

President Sisi garnered 97.08 percent of valid votes in the presidential election last week, where more than 21.8 million people voted for him. His hardly-known competitor, Moussa Moustafa Moussa, received 656,534 votes, making up 2.9 percent of the valid ballots.


The turnout stood at 24,254,152 voters, representing 41 percent of 50,078,138 registered voters.


In a televised speech after winning the election, Sisi pledged to keep his promise in serving the nation and thanked all Egyptians for trusting him to lead the country.


“With complete honesty, I pledge to keep my promise with you and to dedicate myself to spare no efforts for our great nation,” Sisi said on Monday. The national unity that was shown during the election was strong evidence of Egypt’s solid power against those who wanted to undermine the country, he added.

Much like the 2014 election, when Sisi competed against well-known politician Hamdeen Sabahy, invalid votes ranked second in the poll. In the 2014 vote, 23.4 million people voted for Sisi, invalid votes accounted for one million ballots, and Sabahy won 740,000 votes.


In 2018, invalid votes made up 7.27 percent of the total votes, accounting for 1.762 million ballots. If invalid votes are not excluded from the result, Sisi's share of the total votes would be 90 percent.