Ahmed Shafik, the 2012 presidential candidate turned exiled Mr. McGoo, will announce his final decision on whether to run for office in 2018 sometime in the next few days, said Raouf Al Sayyed, deputy head of Shafiq’s Egyptian National Movement Party, AMAY reports. The former air force commander had turnedthe local press into a circus last week, when he announced out of the blue that he was running, before claiming that UAE authorities were not allowing him to leave, then disappearing and reappearing in Egypt. We plan to give his announcement the coverage as it deserves: lip service.

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