By Alexander Dziadosz

CAIRO (Reuters) -A packed field of parties is contesting Egypt’s parliamentary election but those set to dominate the chamber agree on most issues of substance, including their staunch support for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Voting in Egypt began on Monday, nearly two years after Sisi was elected to a third, six-year term, the final term he is allowed under Egypt’s current constitution. Polling is held over several phases and continues for more than five weeks.

Campaign banners hanging on streetsides and traffic circles featured a dozen logos – on paper as crowded a field as at practically any time since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising ended decades of one-party rule.

Unlike those days, however – when Islamists, liberals, socialists and regime loyalists waged ha

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