CAIRO: Egypt’s interim president urged Egyptians on Sunday to come out and vote in this week’s presidential election, saying the vote will shape the nation’s future.

In a televised address, Adly Mansour also sought to assure Egyptians that state institutions, including his office, would not interfere in the Monday and Tuesday voting.

“Let us all come out tomorrow and the day after to express our free choice. Choosing, without being guided or dictated to, the person we trust to have the ability to build and run the nation,” Mansour said.

“The state’s institutions, with the presidency at their heart, stand at an equal distance from the two presidential candidates. They have not and will not direct any citizen to a specific choice. Instead, we are all concerned with security and a wide popular participation,” Mansour said in the recorded five-minute address.

In a separate development, a suspected member of an Al-Qaeda-inspired group has been killed by his own roadside bomb in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to Egyptian security officials.

They said the militant’s father lost an arm in the blast Saturday. Both men, they added, are members of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis.