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Egypt elections: First presidential contest since Arab Spring revolution Egypt’s constitutional court ruled Thursday that former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq can run for president, despite ties to the deposed regime of Hosni Mubarak, and recommended disbanding one-third of the country’s Islamist-dominated parliament because of a violation of election law.
June 15, 2012
Presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi, left, of the Muslim Brotherhood greets a crowd outside a mosque after attending Friday prayers in Cairo.
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June 15, 2012
Presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi, right, of the Muslim Brotherhood attends Friday prayers in Cairo. Activists called for a protest Friday, and Islamists warned that the gains of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak could be wiped out after Egypt's supreme court issued a ruling that caused parliament to dissolve and kept Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime minister, in this weekend's presidential runoff.
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June 15, 2012
An Egyptian protester in Alexandria, Egypt, chants slogans against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq during a demonstration against Thursday’s rulings by Egypt’s supreme court justices, who were appointed by deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. The rulings set the stage for the military and remnants of the old regime to stay in power.
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June 15, 2012
An Egyptian protester in Alexandria, Egypt, holds a picture of a relative killed in the 2011 revolution during a demonstration against Thursday’s court rulings.
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A protester shouts as he stands on top of a barricade in front of soldiers outside the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo. Ex-military officer Ahmed Shafiq was given the green light on Thursday to run for president when Egypt's constitutional court ruled against a law that would have thrown him out of the race, judicial sources said.
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Egyptians chant slogans against presidential candidate and former premier Ahmed Shafiq during a protest outside the Constitutional Court in Cairo as the court examined a law that threatened to bar Shafiq from competing in this weekend's presidential runoff.
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An Egyptian youth hangs a banner with a defaced picture of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and Arabic that reads "Shafiq, the former regime," during a protest in front the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo.
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June, 14, 2102
Protesters put tape over their mouths outside the Supreme Constitutional Court.
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June, 14, 2102
An Egyptian holds a shoe covered with a defaced picture of Egyptian presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and Arabic that reads "feloul," an Egyptian expression that describes the remains of the regime, during a protest in front the Supreme Constitutional Court.
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May 23, 2012
Egyptians wait in a queue outside a polling station in Cairo during the country's first presidential election since a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak.
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May 23, 2012
An Egyptian woman votes during the first day of the presidential election in a polling station in Alexandria, Egypt.
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May 22, 2012
An artist writes a slogan in Arabic that reads "I will never give you peace" next to graffiti picturing the morphed faces of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, right, and military ruler Hussein Tantawi and presidential candidates Amr Moussa, center, and Ahmed Shafiq, left, near Cairo's central Tahrir Square one day before the country's landmark presidential elections.
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May 21, 2012
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, right, shakes hands with Egyptian parliamentary Speaker Saad al-Katatni in Cairo.
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May 21, 2012
Presidential candidate Khaled Ali speaks to the media during a news conference at his office in Cairo. Voting starts in Egypt's presidential election on May 23-24 to choose who will succeed Hosni Mubarak, who was swept from office last year in a popular uprising.
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May 20, 2012
Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa speaks during a press conference in Cairo. Moussa, a veteran foreign minister, former Arab League chief and the presidential election's main secular candidate, vows to lead a multi-confessional Egypt in the face of the rising power of Islamists.
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May 16, 2012
Egyptian presidential candidate and former Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa is surrounded by supporters after a rally in El-Kalubia.
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May 16, 2012
Presidential candidate Mohammed Fawzy Essa speaks at a news conference in Cairo. More than 50 million Egyptian voters will choose from among 13 candidates for the country's first president since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
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May 14, 2012
Former prime minister and presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq talks during a news conference in Cairo. Voting starts on May 23-24 in an election to choose a new president after Hosni Mubarak was ousted last year. Minister of Parliament Essam Sultan of the Wasat Party has accused Shafiq of exploiting his previous position as head of Egypt's Young Air Force Officers Association by selling thousands of acres of state land in Ismailia earmarked for the association at reduced prices to figures associated with the former regime, local media reported.
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May 13, 2012
An expatriate living in Libya casts his ballot at a polling station at the Egyptian Consulate in Tripoli during early voting ahead of Egypt's presidential election.
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May 13, 2012
An employee of the Egyptian Embassy checks the voting application of an expatriate before he votes at the embassy in Kuwait.
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May 12, 2012
Muslim Brotherhood's candidate for the Egyptian presidential elections Mohammed Morsi waves to the crowd as he arrives to attend a presidential campaign rally in Cairo.
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May 11, 2012
Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, left, a moderate Islamist, and former foreign minister Amr Moussa stand at their podiums during Egypt's first televised presidential debate in Cairo. Two presidential election front-runners have squared off in the Arab world's first ever presidential debate, trading barbs over the role of religion and how to bring democratic reform to Egypt.
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May 9, 2012
Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi waves to supporters during his campaign tour in Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo. Voting starts in Egypt's presidential election on May 23 to choose who will succeed Hosni Mubarak, who was swept from office last year in a popular uprising.
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April 30, 2012
Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate, waves to his supporters during a campaigning conference in Cairo.
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April 26, 2012
Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh appears before his supporters during a mass meeting in Monofeya, north of Cairo.
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April 18, 2012
Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Moussa, who is a former Arab League secretary general, greets residents during a campaign rally on the outskirts of Cairo. Moussa, who describes himself as a liberal nationalist, is likely to win votes among secular-minded Egyptians. The election is scheduled to be held May 23 and 24.
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April 9, 2012
Khairat el-Shater talks to reporters during a news conference in Cairo eight days before he was permanently disqualified from the presidential ballot.
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March 29, 2012
Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Muslim Brotherhood leader who was expelled from the movement after he announced his decision to join the presidential race, talks to reporters in front of the Higher Presidential Elections Commission in Cairo.
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