Crushing win

With nearly all votes counted, Egypt’s former military chief has won a crushing victory over his sole opponent for the presidency with more than 92 per cent of the votes, according to results announced yesterday. The campaign of retired field marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said he won 23.38 million votes, with Left-wing politician Hamdeen Sabahi taking 735,285. Invalid votes were 1.07 million, or nearly 350,000 more than the number of votes for the 59-year-old Sabahi.