The President of the Supreme Committee for the presidential elections in Egypt has announced Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won 96.91 percent of the vote.<br /><br />The official figures from last week’s election sparked an outpouring of celebrations across the country as his supporters hailed the landslide victory.<br /><br />Al-Sisi had retired as head of the army to run for office and had been leading the country since he deposed Islamist Mohamed Mursi 11 months ago.<br /><br />The turn out in the ballot said the supreme committee was around 47 percent of the country’s 54 million voters – less than the 40 million votes or 80 percent of the electorate which Al-Sisi had called for.
