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The upcoming presidential elections campaign \u201coffers an opening to mobilise<\/strong> opposition and breathe life into a political scene choked by the civil liberties crackdown,\u201d<\/strong> despite an expected victory for President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, writes Heba Saleh for The Financial Times<\/a>. \u201cThe [campaign provides] an opportunity to debate important issues because people feel there is a lot of injustice,\u201d former MP Mohamed El Sadat says. Presidential hopeful Khaled Ali also said he wants to \u201cforce the authorities to ensure the contest will be a real race rather than a charade.\u201d An MP backing El Sisi tells Saleh \u201cthe mere fact that Khaled Ali is running is a point in our favour. It is the biggest proof that there is no repression of freedoms in Egypt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The upcoming presidential elections campaign \u201coffers an opening to mobilise opposition and breathe life into a political scene choked by the civil liberties crackdown,\u201d despite an expected victory for President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, writes Heba Saleh for The Financial Times. \u201cThe [campaign provides] an opportunity to debate important issues because people feel there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-637421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"8a8290a0-f24b-4f70-b002-33d6ca72cfde","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"a7487662-16a7-404e-aa0b-95c65b25ae90","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[637395],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nPresidential elections could offer chance to mobilize opposition - 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