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Egypt Sets March Date for Presidential Elections

by VOA News

   Egypt will hold its presidential elections between March 26 and 28 this
   year, the election commission announced Monday.

   First round results will be announced on April 2, and a runoff election
   will take place April 24-26, if needed.

   A day earlier, former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq announced
   that he would not be running for president in the country's 2018
   elections, reversing a former promise to challenge the country's
   general-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who is widely expected
   to win.

   Sissi was Egypt's army chief when he toppled the country's first freely
   elected civilian president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, in
   July 2013.