By Mirette Magdy, Aswat Masriya The presidential campaign for leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi has spent much less than 100 thousand Egyptian pounds, Madeeha Zaki, campaign director, told Aswat Masriya on Tuesday. “The funds in the campaign’s bank account did not exceed 200 Egypt pounds so far, as the campaign has not received any donations from businessmen,” Zaki explained.In contrast, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign has spent 12 million Egyptian pounds until now, according to Tarek Nour, the campaign’s coordinator and chief advisor.”We had to turn down many offers to run the campaign by advertising companies due to financial reasons,” Zaki said, adding that she herself did not take any fees and is only a volunteer. There is only one television advertisement for Sabahi that is scheduled to be aired on several satellite channels by Wednesday or Thursday, according to Zaki. The advertisement is a donation by someone who requested his identity not to be revealed. “The donor is not a businessman. He informed us that he booked an advertising space for the campaign on several satellite channels. Funding the production of the advertisement was through self-efforts by volunteers.” The campaign prefers to spend any donations…
Hamdeen Sabahi’s presidential campaign has spent less than EGP 100,000
May 14, 2014
