Tik, tok. It’s election o’clock. The nation’s talking heads solely focused on the 2023 presidential election as Egyptians prepare to head to the polls next week.

Last-minute campaigning: Members and managers of the various presidential candidates’ campaigns took over the talk shows to do some last-minute campaigning and try to sway the public vote in their candidate’s favor. The head of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s re-election campaign Mahmoud Fawz joined Yahduth Fi Masr’s Sherif Amer (watch, runtime: 3:28) to tell us what to expect from a new term for El Sisi. Meanwhile, members of Al Wafd Party’s Abdel Sanad Yamama, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party’s Farid Zahran, and the Republican People Party’s Hazem Omar’s presidential campaigns took over Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 2:41) and Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 2:40 | 2:37).

ALSO ON THE AIRWAVES- Now’s not the time for a Marsa Alam getaway: Heavy flooding resulted in authorities closing down a number of roads leading to the Red Sea resort city. Some, but not all, of the blocked roads have been fixed and reopened since, Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi told Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa (watch, runtime: 8:08).

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