Raghda al-Saeed, a body language expert, said the Egyptian people do not want to see a debate between presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
She added that should a debate take place, Sabbahi would not talk about his positive points as much as he would focus on the negative points of his contender.
“Sisi addresses emotions,” she said. “He may get nervous in a debate.”
She pointed out that Sisi should change his “military” body language if he becomes president. “He did not want to be interrupted in his television interview because he is used to giving orders,” she said. “He gets bored from long meetings.”
“He seemed like a democratic dictator,” she said, considering it a direct order when he told his interviewer, Ibrahim Eissa, that he does not allow him to use the term “Askar.”
“As to Sabbahi, he is difficult to provoke,” she said. “He is articulate and he uses the cheering and motivating style like late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser.”
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
