Egyptians voted for a new president yesterday in an election expected to give a landslide victory to the ex-army chief who ousted the country’s first democratically-elected leader Mohamed Mursi.
The two-day election is the first since the frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi deposed president Mohamed Mursi in July, a move that unleashed the bloodiest violence in Egypt’s recent history.
Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood is boycotting the vote, as are revolutionary youths who fear Sisi is an autocrat in the making.
But the 59-year-old retired field marshal is expected to trounce his sole rival, leftist Hamdeen Sabbahi, amid widespread calls for stability.
