El-Sisi Looms Over Egypt Vote Billed as Step to Restore Order - Bloomberg:
"Egyptians vote today to elect a president in a race widely seen as preordained for the former army chief who toppled the country’s first-ever freely elected civilian leader.
Posters of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, whose fame among Egyptians has rocketed since he led President Mohamed Mursi’s ouster in July, plastered Cairo’s streets on the eve of the two-day vote. He faces off against Hamdeen Sabahi, a former lawmaker who came third in the last election in 2012.
The winner takes the helm of a polarized nation struggling since the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak to recover from political unrest battering the economy, as a surge in violence deters tourists and investors. El-Sisi, 59, has pledged to restore order and improve living standards with the help of aid from oil-rich Gulf monarchies seeing Egypt as too important to be allowed to fail. His critics say he has offered little details on how he will achieve his targets."
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