( CNN ) -- The first day of voting in Egypt 's presidential election was relatively quiet , state media reported Monday , though one man connected to a campaign was shot to death . Polls will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday for the last day of voting . Egyptians are choosing between two candidates : Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Hamdeen Sabahy . Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb declared Tuesday a public holiday `` in compliance to citizens ' wishes , '' state TV reported . The decision is thought to be a move to increase turnout . Public service ads , media campaigns and the electoral ads of the el-Sisi campaign stressed that voting is a patriotic duty . The election was called because Mohamed Morsy , Egypt 's first freely elected president , was removed from power in July in a popular military coup . A man working for el-Sisi 's campaign was fatally shot near Cairo on Monday , Interior Ministry spokesman Alaa Mahmoud said . Mohamed Fathy , 35 , was getting out of a taxi in the village of Kerdassa on the western edge of Cairo when he was shot in the head by unknown gunmen , Mahmoud said . Fathy was active in the el-Sisi presidential campaign and was a member of the Tamarod political movement , according to a statement from Tamarod . Police are investigating , but Assistant Interior Minister for Information Abdel-Fattah Othman has said the slaying has nothing to do with the election process . Tamarod has blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group , which had held a small protest in Kerdassa earlier in the day . Abdul Mawgoud Dardery , a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood , criticized the election : `` What you have in Egypt now is not democracy but a militacracy . ... What we have now is Mubarak coming back . Sisi is Mubarak version 2014 , and that is the tragedy . '' Mahmoud also said a bomb was detected and defused at the Ahmed Sayed I school polling station in Giza . Egypt 's state-run news agency MENA reported clashes in a polling station at Umraniya district but said they did n't disrupt the vote . Beni Suef Security Director Ibrahim Hadib said that seven members of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested for trying to disrupt the electoral process in that town , MENA reported . A number of people hurled Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of el-Sisi 's campaign in the town of Hosh Issa . No material damage or casualties were reported , MENA said . The Sabahy campaign similarly reported disruptions . `` The day has sadly witnessed many violations observed , documented and announced by the campaign , led by banning Sabahy delegates from entering polling centers , collective voting , physical assaults against delegates and lawyers , let alone some cases of intervention by police and army forces , '' it said in a statement . `` The campaign hopes that these violations would not repeat tomorrow . '' Opinion : Egypt 's youth needs more than tinkering at the edges . For full coverage of the Egyptian election in Arabic , visit CNN Arabic . CNN 's Salma Abdelaziz and journalists Dina Amer and Sarah Sirgany contributed to this report .
NEW : Tuesday , the last day of voting , is declared a public holiday . Outlawed Muslim Brotherhood criticizes the election . Two men are running for the Egyptian presidency . A worker in one candidate 's campaign was shot to death .