Polls opened on Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt’s presidential elections, the first since the military ouster of president Mohammad Mursi, the country’s first freely elected president, last year.

Polls opened on Tuesday for a second day of voting in Egypt's presidential elections, the first since the military ouster of president Mohammad Mursi, the country's first freely elected president, last year.

The winner of the polls will take over from interim president Adly Mansour, who was installed by the army following Mursi's July 3 ouster and subsequent imprisonment.

In a bid to encourage voters to cast their ballots, the Egyptian government had declared Tuesday an official holiday.

The vote is the second step in an army-imposed roadmap for Egypt's post-Mursi transition. The first step of the plan was completed in January with the approval of a new constitution via public referendum.

The roadmap, which included a constitutional referendum in January, will conclude with parliamentary elections later this year.

Five international organizations and 79 local ones have been authorized by the electoral commission to observe the voting process.

In addition to nongovernmental monitors, envoys from the Arab League; the European Union; the African Union; the Common Market for East and South Africa will follow up the vote.

Around 300,000 police and army personnel have been deployed to secure the process nationwide.

Observers expect that former minister of defense Abdulfattah al-Sisi to dominate the polls, especially after he secured an overwhelming 95.4 percent of the vote in expatriate polling last week, according to results announced by Egypt's electoral commission.

Parliamentary poll, the final milestone of the roadmap, is expected sometime this year after the presidential vote.

Presidential poll results will be officially announced on June 5.