Pictures: Egyptian presidential elections 2014

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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. 

Quote of the day (2): On voting in pre-revolution Egypt

"A ballot box in Egypt was like a magic box: you put the paper in with a vote against Mubarak and it would come out as a 'yes'!"

Hopefully they have toned down on the magic tricks this time around.

Source: one of my (Egyptian) students.

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

Very insightful.