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If Egyptians see this race as Islamist versus non Islamist, there is no better champion of the non Islamists than Suleiman, who cracked down heavily on the Brotherhood during his tenure and is very much the military ruler’s choice.
So, the man who during the revolution people would not accept as vice president, has now become a frontrunner for president a year later - not because he’s proved himself in any way (after urging people to go home during the revolution and saying Egyptians aren’t ready for democracy) but because he’s become the antithesis of the Islamist trend.
It’s a sad scenario which many Egyptians view as a slap in the face to the millions who took to the streets during the uprising.
