GOLD coins and mobile phones have rained down on people in southeast Egypt as a candidate, standing in the ongoing consultative council elections, decided to shower locals with incentives to sway their vote, a police source said on Sunday. Over the last four days, a glider bearing the name and election symbol of independent candidate Samir Harres Agaybi, appeared above the governorate of the Red Sea, dropping mobile phones, gold coins and bank notes of 10 and 20 Egyptian pounds ($1.2 and $5), the source said. The candidate also offered cars and “expensive presents” to officials in the region, the source said. Agaybi is standing in the second round of the by-elections to the consultative council, a body with no legislative power. – AFP