Egyptians vote for president after years of turmoil
Published date: 26 September 2014 11:43 BST
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Last update: 10 years 1 month ago
Many view this week's vote as a referendum on stability versus freedoms promised in Egypt's 2011 popular uprising.
Egyptians are voting for a new president on Monday, with the ex-army chief who overthrew the country's first democratically elected leader and crushed his Islamist movement expected to win in a landslide.
The two-day election is the first since the frontrunner and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July, a move that unleashed the bloodiest violence in Egypt's recent history.
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