Egypt\\\'s al-Sisi officially declared president

Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has been officially announced as the new president of the country by the presidential election commission. Al-Sisi achieved a landslide victory over leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabahy in the 3-day presidential polls held last month. ‘Presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil al-Sisi got 23,780,104 votes, which represents 96.91 per cent of the votes,’ Xinhua quoted Judge Anwar al-Assi, chairman of the election commission, as saying in a press conference Tuesday. Al-Assi said Sabahy got 757,511 of the total valid votes, about 3.1pc. More than 25 million of the 53.9 million eligible voters joined the polls, giving a voter turnout of 47.45 pc, according to Xinhua.