The nightmare scenario has come to be, yet there is much more to the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections than meets the eye
Hani Shukrallah
28th May, 2012
For many Egyptians it is the worst case scenario. Coming to work this morning my cab driver is seething: “They’re as bad as each other, I won’t be voting,” he pledged, referring to the final runoff election between the two front-runners, due to take place in mid-June. He lamented the relatively slim-margin defeat of leftist candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi, “he got Cairo and Alexandria and, God bless the Prophet, Port Said.”
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