Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has won 51.6 percent of people’s satisfaction after 90 days in office, the government’s Information and Decision Support Center has reported.
The public satisfaction in urban areas stood at about 54.7 percent, slightly higher than the satisfaction in coastal areas, 52.4 percent. In rural and tribal areas the satisfaction was 48.8 low.
The general public satisfaction for his presidential program was rated at almost 60 percent. But Only close to 27 percent actually understood how the Mursi’s program was being implemented by the government.
About 61 percent were satisfied with fuel prices and a little over 52 percent were satisfied with the security situation.
The majority of people, however, (More than 54 percent) are not satisfied with the public cleanliness.
The image of the bespectacled civil engineer as Egypt’s “accidental president,” forced into the election by the disqualification of the Muslim Brotherhood’s preferred choice, has faded as the self-imposed deadline approaches.
Major tests have included managing the aftermath of violent protests at the U.S. embassy in September triggered by a film that denigrated Islam. Diplomats felt his response was slow, but it was apparently effective – damage to ties with Egypt’s biggest benefactor was minimal while Mursi earned credibility at home for appearing sensitive to popular anger.
Mursi has also mostly avoided getting bogged down in contentious issues such as the role Islamic law will play in the government and laws of post-Mubarak Egypt. That debate, which pitches secular-minded Egyptians against Islamists, is going on within the body writing a new constitution.
But Mursi’s successes have often been overshadowed in the Egyptian media by domestic problems, including industrial action that has served as a reminder of the deep economic problems that fuelled the uprising against predecessor President Hosni Mubarak.
In the past three months, Egypt has experienced increased power cuts that sometimes last for hours, while a fuel and diesel crisis has at times paralyzed the country, with mile-long queues forming outside petrol stations. Prices for gas canisters — used in many homes for cooking and heating — have spiked.
The Mursi Meter website said the president had failed to address the bread problem and the independent Al-Shorouk daily said that five people were killed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria as they fought to get to the front of the bread queue.