Omar Suleiman leading in opinion polls

An opinion poll carried out by the al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo revealed that Omar Suleiman received the highest percentage of votes, at 31.7 per cent. Suleiman was vice president and head of intelligence during ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime.  Egypt's former foreign minister Amr Moussa came second with a difference of eight to nine per cent from Suleiman. Ultraconservative Salafist Hazem Salah Abu Ismail came in third with a percentage of 21.4 per cent, followed by Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh at 6.2 per cent. The Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater clinched only 4.3 per cent approval in the sample survey, while Ahmed Shafik received only 3.4 per cent. The poll said that some 40 percent of the voting bloc of Omar Suleiman will go to Ahmed Shafik, while about 27 percent will go to Amr Moussa. It also proved that the electoral campaign of the Muslim Brotherhood was not able to market a viable presidential candidate as it did with parliamentarians.