Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the fairness of the 2018 Egyptian Presidential election.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not made a formal assessment of the fairness of the 2018 Presidential election. We note criticism of the constraints on the democratic space in Egypt. The Arab League and African Union sent observers to monitor the elections. The Prime Minister called President Sisi on 4 April and congratulated him on the chance he now has to take Egypt further along the path of democratic transition during his final term in office. The UK wants Egypt to succeed as a stable, prosperous and democratic country, building on the rights and freedoms set out in the 2014 Constitution.