Leftist presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi will hold a press conference on Thursday at 5pm to comment on the preliminary results of the 2014 presidential elections, which showed that former Defense MInister and presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has garnered about 97 percent of the total invalid votes.
Sabbahi's lawyer Abdel Nasser Mohamed appealed to the judicial committee supervising the elections in Aswan immediately after the initial results were announced.
Nasser challenged sorting in polling committees number 3, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17, and 18 in Aswan City.
Nasser also objected to extending the vote to a third day saying it was illegal.
Findings collected by Al-Masry Al-Youm about the results of the presidential elections which ended Wednesday show that Sisi has garnered 23,965,560 votes, equal to 96.9 percent of the total valid votes, while Sabbahi received 754,757 votes, equal to 3.1 percent.
The invalid votes reached 1,028,000 votes of the total number of participants, which stood at 25,744,130 votes, equal to 47.7 percent of the total number of eligible voters, according to Al-Masry Al-Youm estimates.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
