The Egyptian presidential election headed into a strange way where people ended up into two doors, reading on the top of first as: "vote to make Sharia as pillars of political establishment" and on the second as: "guys, welcome back home". Tittering up and down, searching for what they fought for during months and made sacrifices, Egyptians find no other way to get in. Gazing at one another's eyes, they are saying, "Come on guys, we already know who might we see once doors open". "We know who are behind those two doors because they are the doors, for years, we used to get in and out".
Nothing is wrong if you find Egyptians watching the result of recent presidential election with open mouth. The result revealed that Ahmad Shafiq the ex-air-chief and Mohammad Mursi, not a very well-known member to Muslim Brotherhood, will go for the run-off. Ahmad Shafiq is the ex-air chief during former President Hosni Mubarak. His military background made many, before the start of presidential election, deem it as sign of his disadvantages and no one expected him to surpass challenging candidates like Amar Mousa the former Arab League Chief.
Surprisingly, as the result reveals, his military background indeed strengthened his status against challenging competitors. Egyptian voters are tired of continuous business disruption and political uncertainty as the Tahrir square, most of the time, hosted demonstrators even after the collapse of former regime. It often has been the battle ground between protestors and security forces.
In such a condition, in a country like Egypt, where remarkable part of people livelihoods depend on tourists' dollars, obviously, people become tired of uncertainty and continuous instability which affects and disrupts the tourist business. Seemingly, voters are tired of the situation and they want someone to restore peace and stability in order to get back to their business.
Having useful experience in security fields, Ahmad Shafiq is viewed a capable person to bring the situation under the control. But those who constantly came to gather and forced Mr. Mobarak to give up power now are grinding that their sacrifices and months of civil uprising finally ends to the same place from where they started. Indeed, they consider the election of Mr. Shafiq as re-election of former regime.
On other hand, Mohammad Mursi is not well-known, and he came up to the lead merely due to well-organized movements of Brotherhood. Anyhow, the situation has moved on track where people should choose between the two. But let's see will voters prefer Sharia-government of a secular former regime?