CAIRO– The High Election Commission (HEC) officials have already counted the votes at 30,402 out of 30,432 polling centers across Egypt, and the counting is about to be wrapped up.
Semi-final results of a referendum on an amended version of Egypt’s 2012 constitution indicate that 98.35 percent of voters approve of the modified charter, while only 1.65 percent reject it.
The High Election Commission (HEC) officials have already counted the votes at 30,402 out of 30,432 polling centers across Egypt, and the counting is about to be wrapped up.
The semi-final tally has shown that a total of 18.6 million Egyptians cast ballots at the polling centers in which votes have been counted, some 18.3 million of whom voted “yes” to the amended constitution.
Only 307,000 Egyptians said “no” to the charter, according to the initial vote count.
The figures, however, are unofficial.
The HEC is expected to announce final poll results on Saturday.
In 2012, 32.9 percent of eligible Egyptian voters participated in a constitutional referendum under then- president Mohamed Morsi.
