TUNIS — The Egyptian presidency has formally invited its Tunisian counterpart to attend next week's planned inauguration of president-elect Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, a spokesman for the Tunisian presidency said Wednesday."[Egyptian] Interim President Adly Mansour has extended an invitation to the Tunisian presidency," Shaker Bouguila, the Tunisian presidency's media attaché, told Anadolu Agency.A well-placed source had told AA earlier that Egypt's interim government would not invite Turkey, Qatar, Tunisia or Israel to send representatives to take part in the ceremony.On Tuesday, al-Sisi was declared the winner of last week's presidential elections, in which he was said to have clinched almost 97 percent of the vote.Egypt's army-installed interim presidency has invited 22 countries, 16 of whom have already confirmed their attendance, to a planned inauguration ceremony to be held on Sunday in Cairo, according to the well-placed source.Prior to the inauguration, al-Sisi is expected to be sworn in before Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court.Al-Sisi had been serving as defense minister when the army ousted elected president Mohamed Morsi last July following opposition protests.Last September, Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki had called for Morsi's release after the ousted leader was taken to an unknown location by the military.In the months following Morsi's ouster, Cairo recalled its ambassadors from Ankara, Doha and Tunis, accusing the three countries of "interfering" in Egypt's affairs.The Egyptian government also avoided inviting Israel.This was presumably to avert a public backlash, as the self-proclaimed Jewish state continues to be seen in a negative light by much of the Egyptian public-despite a 1979 peace treaty between Cairo and Tel Aviv.According to the source, countries whose governments have confirmed their attendance at the inauguration include: Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, the United States, Russia, South Africa, Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan and Nigeria.Last week's presidential polls, the second since Egypt's 2011 uprising that unseated Hosni Mubarak, constitute the second phase of a transitional roadmap imposed by al-Sisi in the wake of Morsi's ouster last July.The vote was widely boycotted by Morsi supporters and youth groups opposed to the notion of yet another military man as Egypt's next president.