“Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi’s unofficial presidential campaign is hitting the streets with growing momentum. The organizers are taking names. They are taking numbers. They claim that more than 9 million people — over 10 percent of the population — have signed the petition calling for the man who orchestrated the July coup that overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected leader to become this nation’s next elected president.”
Source: Egyptians try to draft Gen. Sissi for president – The Washington Post
