#voting underway in Egyptian #presidential_election
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Egyptians wait in line outside a polling station in the Dokki neighborhood of Cairo on May 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Virginie Nguyen Hoang) Egyptians wait in line outside a polling station in the Dokki neighborhood of Cairo on May 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Virginie Nguyen Hoang)
Egyptians voted for a new president Monday in an election expected to sweep to power the ex-army chief who overthrew the country’s first democratically-elected leader and crushed his Islamist movement. The two-day election is the first since the front runner and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi deposed Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in July, a move that unleashed the bloodiest violence in #Egypt's recent history. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood (...)