[ 2012-04-14 ]

Nearly 40% of Egyptians undecided ahead of vote
CAIRO (AFP) - Nearly 40 percent of Egyptian voters
are undecided less than six weeks before the first
presidential election since the ouster of veteran
strongman Hosni Mubarak, a poll published on
Saturday found.

A full 38 percent of respondents said they had yet
to make up their minds which of the 23 candidates
to vote for in the May 23-24 first round, the poll
published by the independent daily Al-Masry al-Yom
found.

Among the 62 percent who had decided, 20.1 percent
said they would vote for Mubarak's long-time
intelligence chief Omar Suleiman who briefly
served as vice president before the president's
overthrow in February last year.

Suleiman was followed by former Muslim Brotherhood
member Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh with 12.4 percent
and Salafist candidate Hazem Abu Ismail with 11.7
percent.

Former Arab League chief and Mubarak-era foreign
minister Amr Mussa trailed with 6.4 percent,
followed by the Brotherhood's official candidate
Khairat El-Shater with 3.2 percent.

The poll was carried out on April 10 by the
Egyptian Institute for Public Opinion Research
(Bassira) among a sample of 2,034 people aged 18
and over.

Respondents were asked: "Who would you vote for if
the election were held tomorrow?"

Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament on Thursday
approved a bill that would ban members of
Mubarak's regime from standing for public office,
but it needs the support of the ruling Supreme
Council of the Armed Forces to become law.

Source - AFP

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