{"id":39073,"date":"2019-04-21T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39073"},"modified":"2019-04-21T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T06:22:27","slug":"will-egyptian-president-el-sisis-mandate-be-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39073","title":{"rendered":"Will Egyptian President el-Sisi&#8217;s mandate be extended?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.866805411\">\n<p>Millions of Egyptians are heading to the polls to vote in a referendum on <span>constitutional amendments\u00a0<\/span>that could keep President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi.html\">Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi<\/a> in office until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments have received overwhelming backing from parliament. Supporters say el-Sisi has stabilised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/egypt.html\">Egypt<\/a> and needs more time to finalise economic reform.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the amendments would allow the president to appoint top judges, expand the role of the military, and create the post of vice president.<\/p>\n<p>But rights groups are concerned el-Sisi&#8217;s consolidation of power will lead to a crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n<p>So is Egypt heading towards a complete authoritarian rule? And what are the consequences, both at home and in the region?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Kaldas &#8211; non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy<\/p>\n<p>Maha Azzam &#8211; head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Baoumi &#8211; Egypt researcher for Amnesty International<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Egyptians are heading to the polls to vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments\u00a0that could keep President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in office until 2030. The amendments have received overwhelming backing from parliament. Supporters say el-Sisi has stabilised Egypt and needs more time to finalise economic reform. If passed, the amendments would allow the president&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}