The tension inside Shafik's poorly organized campaign is high, but the controversy brewing around it is even higher. And that's the reason everyone is anxious. Shafik was once the commander of President Hosni Mubarak's Air Force. For nearly a decade, he served as Mubarak's civil aviation minister. And, briefly, as thousands of protesters poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square at the beginning of last year, demanding — and ultimately forcing — Mubarak's ouster, he was the dictator's last Prime Minister. Suffice it to say: in post-Mubarak Egypt, Ahmed Shafik as a candidate is facing a firestorm of opposition.
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