Egypt’s presidential elections kicked off on Sunday, 10 December at 9 AM local time (7 GMT) at 9376 polling stations nationwide. The elections are taking place amid public discontent triggered by decade-long socioeconomic decline. They are, however, not expected to be free or fair and are most likely to be won by incumbent president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who overthrew his predecessor in a military coup and has been in power since 2014. Other than Sisi, Farid Zahran, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, Abdel-Sanad Yamama, the leader of the country’s oldest liberal party Al-Wafd, and…