[An Nahar] Egyptians voted for a new president Monday in an election expected to give a landslide victory to the ex-army chief who ousted the country's first democratically-elected leader and crushed his Islamist movement.The two-day election is the first since the frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sissi deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
in July, a move that unleashed the bloodiest violence in Egypt's recent history.
Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund is boycotting the vote, as are revolutionary youths who fear Sisi is an autocrat in the making.
But the 59-year-old retired field marshall is expected to trounce his sole rival, leftist Hamdeen Sabbahi, amid widespread calls for stability.
Sisi himself voted minutes after polling opened Monday amid a throng of jostling news hounds and supporters. About 53 million people are eligible to vote.
"The entire world is watching us, how Egyptians are writing history and their future today and tomorrow," Sisi said.
"Egyptians must be reassured that tomorrow will be very beautiful and great," he said, as supporters shook his hand and kissed his cheeks.