{"id":634866,"date":"2018-01-28T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/01\/28\/presidential-elections-khaled-alis-withdrawal-dominate-coverage-of-egypt-in-the-international-press\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T04:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T04:08:14","slug":"presidential-elections-khaled-alis-withdrawal-dominate-coverage-of-egypt-in-the-international-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/01\/28\/presidential-elections-khaled-alis-withdrawal-dominate-coverage-of-egypt-in-the-international-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential elections, Khaled Ali\u2019s withdrawal dominate coverage of Egypt in the international press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coverage of Egypt in the international press this weekend was uniformly critical after Khaled Ali announced his withdrawal from the race for the presidency on Thursday.<\/strong> While Ali\u2019s chances of actually winning were slim, his supporters hoped his bid would be a means of political mobilization in an otherwise \u201cstrangled\u201d scene, says the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/10cdd2c6-013e-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5\">Financial Times\u2019 Heba Saleh<\/a>. The arrest of former Armed Forces chief of staff Sami Anan shows that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is \u201cunder no pressure from abroad to play by the rules,\u201d analyst Riccardo Fabiani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-24\/and-then-there-was-one-last-rival-to-egypt-s-el-sisi-drops-away\">tells Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump should turn back on El Sisi -WaPo: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/trump-should-realize-that-egypts-dictator-is-no-friend-of-the-united-states\/2018\/01\/24\/c95e22d2-007b-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.b554f2e7782d\">The Washington Post\u2019s editorial board<\/a> says that now is the time for US President Donald Trump to turn away from his \u201cdisappointing\u201d policy of counting El Sisi as a friend despite his \u201cabuse of democratic norms.\u201d Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/egyptian-leader-faces-unusual-electoral-challenges-from-military-1516816839?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=9\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> notes that the most credible challengers to El Sisi had emerged from the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Although El Sisi\u2019s reelection seems to be a foregone conclusion, reports are emerging that loyalist businessmen are \u201cbribing\u201d poor voters<\/strong> with cash and food handouts in exchange for signing endorsement forms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/food-for-votes-egyptians-say-it-pays-to-support-el-sissi\/2018\/01\/25\/c78dbbbe-0195-11e8-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html?utm_term=.e55fb69985d5\">The Associated Press\u2019<\/a> Samy Magdy says. With opponents out of the way, the presidential elections will likely be a \u201csubdued affair,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jan\/24\/with-dissent-crushed-egypts-presidential-campaign-is-a-subdued-affair\">Ruth Michaelson writes for The Guardian<\/a>. El Sisi\u2019s election \u201cseems assured, but his popular support is muted,\u201d she writes. All in all, Egyptians who were hopeful that ousting the Ikhwan in 2013 would usher in a new age of democracy \u201clearned the hard way that they were wrong,\u201d Sara Khorshid <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/01\/24\/egypts-undemocratic-election\/\">writes for Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton says Mike Pence\u2019s trip to the Middle East shows how much the Trump administration has changed America\u2019s Middle East policy in its first year<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/370340-mike-pence-in-the-middle-east-the-new-pointman-on-foreign-policy\">in a piece for The Hill<\/a>. He says Washington and its allies do not need more Russian adventurism in the region and cites one example of this being the \u201cunprecedented\u201d increased presence of Russian military forces in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage of Egypt in the international press this weekend was uniformly critical after Khaled Ali announced his withdrawal from the race for the presidency on Thursday. 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