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Sobhi Saleh, Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Alexandria, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that
police were preventing his representatives from entering polling stations as well.
Pictures of NDP candidates and slogans in support of the candidates were seen hung
around fences of polling stations in Dokki, Agouza and Nasr City, while opposition or
independent candidates’ posters were noticeably absent.
Voter turn out was still low during the first hours of elections day, according to
witnesses.
“I haven’t missed elections since 1981 because I have a sense of responsibility toward
this country. The biggest problem is that
people complain and when it comes to action, they don’t do anything,” said Mohamed
Samir, an engineer, in Giza.
Voters complained about the difficulty of the process in certain districts.
“The voters lists are badly organized. It’s very hard to find names. I had to go to one
polling station in the morning and didn’t find my name. Then I went to another one. It
took me an hour to cast my vote,” added Samir.
“If we had real democracy, police shouldn’t be inside the polling station," said Mohamed
Hassan, a 27-year-old lawyer from Giza.
Samia Hussein, a housewife with four children from the Mit Oqba neighborhood in Giza,
told Al-Masry Al-Youm that she will be voting or the NDP candidates.
“I vote for them because of our condition. Whenever we need anything they help us. Mr.
Sayyed Gohar and Ms. Amal Othman sent us gifts in Ramadan and paid for our children’s
private lessons,” she said.
Ahmed Shawqi, a member of the High Elections Commission, said that so far voter
turnout at polling stations has been average.
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