Sisi ousted Cyrus in a closely contested battle, to win the “completely unscientific” readers’ poll.
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Until very recently, Cyrus was leading the poll with 29.1% of the votes. However, with Egypt accounting for the largest number of votes on the TIME.com poll, Sisi won with 449,596 of 1.9 million votes.
