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         US Urges Accountability, Transparency for New Egyptian Leader

   by VOA News

   The United States is calling on Egypt's president-elect, Abdel Fattah
   el-Sissi, to carry out reforms to ensure the government is accountable
   and transparent while protecting "the universal rights of all
   Egyptians."

   A White House statement Wednesday said President Barack Obama plans to
   speak with Sissi in the coming days, following the official
   announcement the former army chief won 97 percent of the vote in last
   week's election.

   Egypt's election commission estimated 47 percent of eligible voters
   took part in the election, which included an extra day of voting and a
   boycott by the banned Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed
   Morsi.

   The White House statement praised the involvement of international
   observers, but expressed concern about the "restrictive political
   environment" surrounding the vote.

   Sissi pushed Morsi from office last July and was long assumed to win
   the presidency as the military-backed interim government carried out a
   deadly crackdown on the Brotherhood that included the arrest of many of
   the group's leaders.
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