Polls for the presidential elections opened in Egypt on Monday amidst a nationwide security alert hoping to hold a three-day presidential race without “surprises.” Ballots opened at 9 a.m. local time on the first of three days of voting. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cast his vote in Cairo as the polls opened, state TV reported. Army spokesman Tamer Rifai said the deployment of security forces will ensure that committees and polling stations are “a safe environment for Egyptians to cast their votes.” The candidate most likely to win is Sisi, setting him for a second four-year term. Election mass publicity and campaigning spread across Egypt, with conferences being extensively organized over the past period.  Pro-Sisi voters say that he is on his way to a landslide victory against his only rival, Ghad Party head Mousa Mustafa Mousa. Some 60 million Egyptians are entitled to vote, and an encouraging atmosphere is expected to yield in a huge voter turnout. Health and Population Minister Ahmed Rady decided to “fully raise the level of readiness in all hospitals.” He said that 2,400 ambulances are equipped and distributed in the vicinity of the main and sub-electoral committees, main roads and highways in all governorates. He pointed out that “deploying ambulances” was arranged in a way so that each car covers from 5 to 7 electoral committees in each province. He reported preparing 71 hospitals in all Egyptian governorates, which will be receiving any emergency case during elections, and medical assistance to voters. He pointed out that there “has been a review of blood units” and that 20,000 units of all blood types are made available across the voting nation.   The government, which has about 95,000 employees in all sectors, has helped 13,000 judges in the election administration to “complete all preparations, in coordination with the provinces.” Maj. Gen. Abu Bakr al-Jundi said Sunday that “all headquarters of electoral committees in the governorates were equipped and provided with means of comfort to receive voters casting their votes.”