- Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT NASSER AND FAMILY VOTE IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
- Date: 16th March 1965
- Summary: 1. LV EXT..POLLING STATION. 0.04 2. CU ELECTION POSTER. 0.06 3. SV QUEUE WAITING TO ENTER. 0.10 4. SV INT..WOMEN VOTE (2 SHOTS). 0.19 5. CU ELECTION PAMPHLETS. 0.21 6. SV MEN VOTE. 0.26 7. SV MME NASSER AND DAUGHTER ENTER, HAND IN ELECTION CARDS, AND CAST VOTES. 0.48 8. SV PRESIDENT NASSER ENTERS, GIVEN VOTING CARD, GOES TO POLLING BOOTH, THEN CASTS VOTE. 1.18 Initials JT/VS/WH/EEH EDITORS: SEE ALSO PROD.NO. 2372/65 (12 MAR'65) - PROFILE: PRESIDENT NASSER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 31st March 1965 13:00
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- Location: CAIRO, UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC
- Country: Egypt
- Reuters ID: LVA48P2ZM7TBMI3NHTOG1QJ6XC1I
- Story Text: PRESIDENT NASSER WAS ELECTED YESTERDAY (MONDAY) FOR ANOTHER SIX-YEAR TERM AS LEADER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. HE WAS THE ONLY CANDIDATE, AND OFFICIAL FIGURES SAID 99.999 PERCENT OF VOTERS FAVOURED HIM. HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE AMONG THE VOTERS.
MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE VOTED - NEARLY SEVEN MILLION. SOME 6,950,098 VOTED "YES", WHILE THE REMAINING 489 BALLOT PAPERS WERE VOID. POLLING WENT OFF WITHOUT INCIDENT.
PRESIDENT NASSER, WHO HAS BEEN IN POWER SINCE 1954, WAS NOMINATED FOR ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL TERM LAST JANUARY BY THE ARAB SOCIALIST UNION, THE ONLY LEGAL POLITICAL ORGANISATION IN THE REPUBLIC.
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