A month after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's triumphant election as president (against no real opposition), his politics-weary people are still not sure what they are getting. Will the consecration in power of the former field-marshal echo the rise of Napoleon in post-revolutionary France? Does it mark instead the launch of a Second Republic, a more solid and perhaps more democratic replacement for the one that lasted from a military coup in 1952 until the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011? Or is the soft-spoken Mr Sisi simply a new face for the old regime, the figurehead of a Restoration?
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