Pictures: Egyptian presidential elections 2014

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Picture: Egyptian men cast their vote in a polling station in Cairo

Egyptian men voting at a polling station in the Sayyida Eisha neighbourhood in Cairo.

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Picture: Very young Egyptian voter

 

Very young Egyptian voter dips her finger in purple ink to mark that she has voted (or rather, that her mother had voted.)

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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: Egyptian actor Adel Imam casting his vote

Egyptian actor Adel Imam at a polling station in Dokki, Cairo, voting in the 2014 presidential elections.


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Picture: Presidential election banners in Cairo

More pictures here and here. 

'Presidentskandidaat Egypte wil verbod op sociale media, alcohol, demonstraties en stakingen'

'Op 26 en 27 mei kiest Egypte een nieuwe president. Dat voormalig legerleider Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi deze verkiezingen met een overweldigende meerderheid gaat winnen lijkt vrijwel zeker, maar dat weerhoudt sommigen er toch niet van om ook een gokje te wagen. 

Een van de meest in het oog springende kandidaten is Mortada Mansour, een voormalig rechter, tegenwoordig werkzaam als advocaat. Mansour houdt er nogal radicale plannen op na, mocht hij de nieuwe president van Egypte worden.'

Lees hier het hele stuk. 

Video: Sandmonkey on CNN talking Egypt presidential elections

Intelligent man, with guts. Watch until the end: "Can I just say one last thing?"

What I saw today (4): All hail the Egyptian people

"The people of Egypt are the greatest people on earth; and they deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace." 

I wonder if Fischer still feels this way today, after all the drama that surrounds the upcoming presidential elections.