Daniel Serwer comes out in support of the ex-regime candidate in Egypt's presidential election over the Muslim Brotherhood's champion:

The Egyptian revolution would have done better with a more charismatic, less compromised, more principled leader like Nelson Mandela. But that is not what the tortuous path of its politics over the last year and a half has produced. Better a divided government under Shafiq than a deeply Islamist government under Morsi.

Hassan Malik makes the case for the Brotherhood's candidate: