Supporters of the presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi violated the electoral silence in the presidential run-off elections. The supporters, standing 50 meters far from the Doctor Fakar Roshdy Preparatory School poll in Karnak village in Abu Tesht center in Qena, inform voters with their electoral polls and numbers and urge them to vote for Mohamed Morsi.
Security officers prevented candidates’ representatives from entering the polls before the arrival of supervising judges. Meanwhile, quietness has prevailed over electoral polls in Qena cities such as Nagaa Hammadi, Farshout and Abu Tesht few minutes before the start of the vote.
About nine voters stood waiting for the arrival of the supervising judges in front of Al Islah School electoral poll in Nagaa Hammadi.
Qena City had prepared for the presidential run-off elections between Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi and senior commander Ahmed Shafiq held on June 16th and 17th.
Major General Adel Labib, governor of Qena, said electoral polls were prepared for the elections in collaboration with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. There are 337 polling centers, 625 electoral polls and 625 subsidiary electoral polls in Qena.
Counselor Adel Ezzat, head of the general committee of presidential elections in Qena, said 189 judges and counselors are supervising the electoral process in Qena divided on nine centers.
1,064,713 eligible voters are expected to vote in Qena.
