Instead of oil and sugar, Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters are distributing this time macaroni and tomatoes to the electorates of Abu Kabir in Sharkeya Governorate to vote ‘yes’ in the referendum, according to eye witnesses in the governorate.
The eye witnesses further added that the electorates have refused to receive such gifts saying: “We are not going to buy our votes.”
Moreover, the electorates described the situation by presuming that if the ‘macaroni and tomatoes’ gifts are offered to vote to say ‘yes’ in the referendum, the new constitution must be a kind of a Greek ‘salad’. Egyptians used the term salad in Arabic to refer to state of lack of organization and untidiness.
Egyptians vote Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition that failed to scupper the referendum with mass protests.
Polls open at 8:00 am (0600 GMT) in Cairo, Alexandria and eight other provinces and are scheduled to close at 7:00 pm in the first round. The rest of the country votes on December 22.
