( An Egyptian TV presenter wearing Sisi’s necklace, via Amro Ali )

Main Headlines

 Monday

• Observers dispatched around the nation on first day of polling
• First day of 2014 presidential vote passes smoothly
• PEC excludes four judges for influencing voters
• Council: High turnout at women’s poll stations on first day of elections
• Army chief visits poll stations
• Sabahi’s campaign‪ systematic violations by army and police
• Relive the first day of Egypt’s 2014 presidential election
• Security forces use teargas to disperse Morsi’s supporters in Kerdasa
• Egypt Interior ministry denies TV report of a bomb in Mahalla
• Egypt cabinet designates Tuesday a holiday in government sector
• Egypt releases Turkish student after 6-month jail

 Tuesday

• Polls open for second day in presidential election
• PEC: Allowing voters to cast ballots without residence restriction will nullify elections
• Low turnout on second day of presidential election
• Egypt’s government says non-voters to be fined 500 EGP
• NCHR received 216 complaints on first day of Egypt’s presidential poll
• El-Sissi backers scold Egyptians to vote
• Fears of low turnout pushes voting into Wednesday
• Sabahi’s campaign files legal complaint against decision to extend voting
• El-Sisi’s campaign files legal complaint against Egypt’s vote extension
• Egypt’s PEC rejects candidate’s complaints against vote extension
• Vote extension harms political process: Democracy International
• Bassem Youssef’s program will not be returning to TV as planned
• China to dismantle a life-size replica of the sphinx

Wednesday

• Egyptians slow to vote on a hastily added third day
• Sabahi remains in Egypt’s presidential race despite ‘widespread violations’
• Extension of voting in presidential elections stirs controversy
• International observer missions condemn electoral climate
• Polls close in Egypt’s presidential elections
• Egypt’s Sisi heads for big winin early provisional count
• In Morsi’s village,Sisi gets 819 votes and Sabahi 43
• Bombs goes off, wounds a boy in Cairo suburb
• Unidentified assailants shoot a conscript dead in Sinai’s Rafah
• Fire at Giza Zooby chimpanzee house

Thursday

• Egypt’s preliminary 2014 presidential election results
• Egypt to announce presidential vote official results on 3-4 June
• European Union endorses Egypt’s presidential vote as democratic
• Sabahi admits loss, but slams election’s lack of ‘credibility.’
• Egypt’s Mansour annuls pardon decree by former president – annuls pardon degree by former president
• Egypt’s FM meets Ethiopian counterpart for dam talks
• Egypt among world’s fattest countriesin a new global study

Friday

• Sabahi’s campaign files appeal against election results
• Egypt police disperse pro-Morsi demonstrations
• Alleged Al-Jazeera journalist is arrested in Port Said
• Prosecution dismisses charges against 228 alleged supporters of Morsi
• Egypt fights malaria outbreak in Aswan
• El-Sisi’s campaign denies interview with Kuwaiti newspaper
• Russia’s Putincongratulates El-Sisi on his ‘convincing’ victory

Saturday

• ‪Egypt criminalizes dishonoring the Egyptian anthem and flag
• Ten wounded in Friday clashes
• No delays in El-Sisi’s inauguration: Presidential aide
• Brotherhood leader warns Al Sissi: “You won’t have an easy life to rule Egypt”
• Brotherhood’s Badie protests prosecution’s court argument
• UAE to continue aid to Egypt
• Cairo University contracts armed forces to provide food for dormitories

Sunday

• Six Egyptian border guards killed: Army spokesman
• Mahlab’s government to officially step down next week
• Egyptian bill bans tunnel digging to Gaza ‪
• Egyptian court calls Islamists sentenced to die “demons”
• Egyptian government says it is $9.8bn over budget on fuel subsidies on fuel subsidies
• Concern mounts over prisoners in Wadi El-Natroun as access is denied
• AU to discuss unfreezing Egypt’s membership on June 25
• Egypt’s minister of electricity heads to Ethiopia
• 10% raise for Egyptian government employees: Presidential decree

 Good Report

• Behind landslide, a generation divide in Egypt. Sarah El-Deeb
• Sisi, Sabahi, and the security question. Allison McManus
• Asyut: Voting against the Brotherhoodon day one of elections. Mohamed Adam
• Egypt’s Election: A message in spoiled ballots. Tamer El-Ghobashy
• In Lawless Libya, Egypt’s Sisi becomes a star. Ulf Laessing and Feras Bosalum.
• Is Egypt winning war on terror in Sinai? Al-Monitor
• Salafi Nour party in tenuous political alliance with president-elect Sissi. Erin Cunningham

 Plus 

• TIMEP’s presidential elections monitoring project The Tahrir Institute

 Good Read 

• Egypt’s voter turnout and the absence of consistent facts. H.A. Hellyer
• Egypt after the election: Advancing the strategic relationship. Michael Singh
• Images of women in Egypt after June 30. Sarah Hansen
• Egypt’s election to have “regional implications.”   Jumana Al Tamimi
• Egypt’s revolution won’t be undone. Ahdaf Soueif
• An ugly spectacle. Magid Atiya

Photo gallery

• Turnout threatens to mar Sisi win

 Video

• Egypt steps up fight against antiquities thieves

Finally, here are Jayson Casper’s prayers for Egypt