There are three components to the current crisis in Egypt. Right now, the most important, at least in public eye, is who will become the next president of Egypt?

Egypt's first round of Presidential polls has shown that the two institutions – Islamists and the military – still dominate the political landscape, even if their hold is weakening. The surprise in the elections has been the unexpectedly strong showing of Hamdeen Sabahi, the Nasserist left-secular candidate.