Both Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity congratulated Egypt’s declared President-elect Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for his victory in the presidential elections held last week.
Both Saudi Arabia and the Zionist entity congratulated Egypt’s declared President-elect Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for his victory in the presidential elections held last week.
In a telephone conversation, King Abdullah congratulated Sisi on his election, saying Riyadh is ready to offer economic development assistance to Cairo.
“This is the Kingdom’s duty based on our religion, ethics and the joint destiny of the two countries,” said the king.
For their part, Israeli President and Prime Minister spoke with Sisi on Friday to congratulate him on his victory.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu noted to the Egyptian president-elect the strategic importance of ties between the countries and in sustaining the peace accords between them,” the Israeli leader’s office said in a statement.
Peres’s office said that at the end of their conversation: “President Sisi thanked President Peres for his warm words.”
On June 3, Egypt’s election commission officially declared Sisi the winner of the two-candidate poll. It put the turnout at 47.5 percent of the country’s 53 million eligible voters during the three-day vote. Some opposition movements, however, put the voter turnout at about 11 percent.
Sisi is scheduled to be sworn in as president before the general assembly of the Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday. However, the Zionist entity has not been handed an invitation to take part in Sisi’s inauguration.
Sisi led a military coup that resulted in the overthrow of Mohammad Mursi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president in July 2013. Since then Egypt has witnessed a heavy-handed crackdown of Mursi's supporters as well as the Muslim Brotherhood members.
Sisi’s presidency places Egypt back in the hands of a top military official just three years after a popular uprising against former dictator Hosni Mubarak, an air force officer who ruled the North African country for almost three decades.
