Pictures: Egyptian presidential elections 2014

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Picture: Elderly Egyptian man going to cast his vote

Egyptian soldiers help an elderly man get down steps to get to a polling station to cast in vote in the 2014 Egyptian presidential elections.

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Picture: Egyptians queue to vote at a polling station in downtown Cairo

 

People queueing at a polling station in downtown Cairo to cast their vote in the 2014 Egyptian presidential elections.

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Picture: Presidential election banners in Cairo

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Why Ahmed Shafiq will be Egypt's next president

Egyptians are off to the voting booths again this weekend, for the second round of the presidential elections. The two remaining candidates are Ahmed Shafiq, the former Minister of Aviation, and Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's back-up man. For many voters it will be a choice between the lesser of two evils. And that is exactly why Shafiq will win.

A Shafiq billboard on Sharia Tahrir in Cairo. 

Shock doctrine in Egypt: post-Mubarak economic crisis and the upcoming elections

Very insightful.