{"id":12425,"date":"2014-02-09T05:56:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/left-wing-politician-declares-bid-for-egypt-s\/"},"modified":"2014-02-09T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:56:32","slug":"left-wing-politician-declares-bid-for-egypt-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/left-wing-politician-declares-bid-for-egypt-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-wing Politician Declares Bid for Egypt\u2019s Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamdeen Sabahi, a prominent left-wing politician in Egypt, announced on Sunday that he will run in the country\u2019s upcoming presidential elections, enlivening a race that army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win.<\/p>\n

Sabahi came third in the 2012 election won by Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was deposed by the army in July following mass protests against his rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy personal decision as a citizen is to run for the coming presidential elections,\u201d Sabahi said in a public address to supporters. \u201cHamdeen Sabahi\u2019s battle is the battle of the revolution.\u201d <\/p>\n

Sabahi, 59, built up a large following during his past run for the presidency, using a popular touch to beat opponents with better funded campaigns.<\/p>\n

The dearth of candidates ahead of this year\u2019s vote provides a stark contrast to 2012, which was the country\u2019s first free election.<\/p>\n

Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, a moderate Islamist who ran for the presidency two years ago, has said he does not plan to enter the race, saying the current circumstances are neither free nor democratic.<\/p>\n

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Hamdeen Sabahi, a prominent left-wing politician in Egypt, announced on Sunday that he will run in the country\u2019s upcoming presidential elections, enlivening a race that army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is widely expected to win. Sabahi came third in the 2012 election won by Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was deposed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050240,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12425.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}