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Folklore troupes in the New Valley refused the governor’s request to perform in the streets and encourage citizens to participate in the elections.
As an alternate plan, the municipality headquarters used cars equipped with megaphones and loudspeakers that played patriotic songs so as to urge people to vote.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm